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Parrot Missing 4 Years Returns Speaking Spanish

Bird keeps talking about someone called Larry

(Newser) - A British man in Torrance, Calif., isn't quite sure where his parrot Nigel was for the last four years—but he's pretty sure a Spanish-speaking man called Larry was involved. Owner Darren Chick was reunited with the African gray last week after it was found in a backyard...

Resilient Dogs Defy the Odds
 Resilient 
 Dogs Defy 
 the Odds 
5 most uplifting
Oct 12, 2014 5:15 AM CDT

Resilient Dogs Defy the Odds

5 most uplifting stories of the week

(Newser) - Stories about super-dogs and a poignant bucket list highlight the week's most uplifting stories:
  • Dog Hit by Car, Then Survives Euthanasia : One rescue worker has dubbed him "Lazarus," while another calls him "Houdini." But a mixed-breed dog who now bounds happily around the yard in
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How Firestone Shut Ebola Down
 How Firestone 
 Shut Ebola Down 
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Oct 11, 2014 1:30 PM CDT

How Firestone Shut Ebola Down

In model response, tiremaker stopped the virus at its first patient in Liberia

(Newser) - You know all the gnashing of teeth about how terrible the global response to the Ebola outbreak has been? Maybe someone should check with Firestone. As NPR reports, the tiremaker runs a rubber plantation and basically the entire town of Harbel, outside Monrovia, Liberia. And when an employee's wife...

Man Repays Newspaper 54 Years After Theft

Bernard Schermerhorn sends check, apology

(Newser) - Some 54 years after stealing several newspaper racks, a US Navy veteran has sent a letter of apology and a check for $200 to the Ledger of Lakeland, Florida. Bernard Schermerhorn says he's followed the rules for most of his 73 years, but caved to peer pressure as a...

Students Wow Pizza Guy With 10,000% Tip

James Gilpin says $1,268 tip couldn't have come at a better time

(Newser) - Indiana Wesleyan University students attend mandatory chapel service each week, and when chapel speaker Keith Newman ordered pizza Wednesday morning as 3,000 students gathered inside, "I thought we were all going to get pizza," a student says. Instead, a Domino's Pizza deliveryman got a big shock—...

Baby Completes Bucket List Before His Brief Life Begins

Shane Haley was born this morning, then died in his mother's arms

(Newser) - When Jenna and Dan Haley found out the baby they were expecting, Shane, would live only a few hours after birth, the Pennsylvania couple decided give him as full a life as they could. They created a "bucket list" for him, ABC News reports, and checked off items while...

Labradoodle Falls From 200-Foot Cliff, Lives

'It's a miracle,' says owner

(Newser) - A Labradoodle named Gracie fell 200 feet off a cliff in Oregon—and survived. Dog owner Michelle Simmons says Gracie and another dog were playing on a trail in the Columbia River Gorge when Gracie went over the side of the cliff. "We kept hearing her rolling and rolling...

Cop Skips Ticket, Instead Gives Mom a Booster Seat

She was pulled over, explained she'd fallen on hard times

(Newser) - Ben Hall could have given Alexis DeLorenzo a ticket. The Michigan public safety officer pulled her over last Friday because her 5-year-old daughter wasn't riding in a booster seat. Instead, Hall had DeLorenzo meet him at a Walmart nearby—where he bought the booster seat and gave it to...

Boy, 8, Survives 6-Story Plunge Down Trash Chute

Neighbor pulls him up with fire hose

(Newser) - An 8-year-old boy was throwing trash down a garbage chute Wednesday when he fell through the opening, plunging six stories down to where trash was piled up to the second floor. His 13-year-old aunt rushed to another eighth-floor resident of the Honolulu condo building asking for help, and 29-year-old Dan...

Redditors Save Suicidal Teen's Life

'Minecraft' gamer thanks fellow players for talking him out of a dark place

(Newser) - Minecraft gamers kicked into real-life survival mode on Sunday when a fellow player who IDed himself as a teen "crippled" by depression and social anxiety posted desperate messages on Reddit. NotARomanGuy, who plays Minecraft using the CaesarOctavius handle, posted two notes to Reddit Sunday. One posted on r/UltraHardcore began...

Dog Hit by Car Then Survives Euthanasia

Worker finds 'Lazarus' walking around morning after injection like 'it's nothing'

(Newser) - One rescue worker has dubbed him "Lazarus," while another calls him "Houdini." But a mixed-breed dog who now bounds happily around the yard in a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., has escaped death not once, but twice, the AP reports. Lazarus (what he's officially being called)...

Lemonade Tale Has Sweet Finish

 Lemonade 
 Tale Has 
 Sweet 
 Finish 
5 most uplifting
Oct 5, 2014 5:14 AM CDT

Lemonade Tale Has Sweet Finish

5 most uplifting stories of the week

(Newser) - A lemons-into-lemonade lesson and a teen who turned his worry about his grandfather into a prize-winning invention are among the week's most uplifting stories:
  • Town Helps Boys After Lemonade Stand Is Robbed : When a not-very-classy guy walked off with all the money from two kids' lemonade stand, it seemed
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Teen's Invention May Save Alzheimer's Patients' Lives

Sensor tells caregivers when patients have gotten out of bed

(Newser) - When Kenneth Shinozuka's grandfather, who has Alzheimer's, was found wandering on a freeway at night, it left a deep impression on the 15-year-old; now he has been recognized for an invention to make sure it never happens again. The device is a pressure sensor that can be worn...

Man Quits Job to Push Huge Testicle Across US

It's not as weird as it sounds

(Newser) - Thomas Cantley quit his job in order to free up some time to take a most unusual journey: walking from Los Angeles to New York ... while pushing a huge "testicle," reports KENS5 . It's not quite as odd as it sounds. Cantley, 31, is a testicular cancer survivor,...

Tiny Monet: Autistic Girl, 5, Sells Paintings for Thousands

Iris Grace may struggle to communicate with words, but not on canvas

(Newser) - When Iris Grace Halmshaw's parents first supplied their daughter with painting supplies, they hoped it would be a fun way for the autistic girl to express herself. But instead of stick figures, Iris Grace immersed herself in abstract impressionist painting for hours at a time, often depicting movement in...

Reporting on Missing Boy, Reporter Spots Him

WFTS reporter Cameron Polom was in the right place at the right time

(Newser) - Early the morning after a 10-year-old boy was reported missing in Tampa, Fla., a TV reporter went to the boy's street to cover the story. Then he spotted a small boy who looked like the one reported missing. WFTS reporter Cameron Polom tells Today.com : "He's looking...

Terrible Restaurant Service Elicits ... Understanding

Makenzie and Steven Schultz's $100 tip goes viral

(Newser) - The restaurant service was awful. "Took 20 minutes to get water, 40 minutes for an appetizer and over an hour for our entree," wrote Makenzie Schultz in a Facebook post . "Yeah, it was pretty terrible." But rather than one of the knee-jerk rants that clog newsfeeds...

In a First, Falcon Has Cataract Surgery

4-year-old Banner gets new lenses, will be able to hunt again

(Newser) - It's a birding milestone: A falcon in New Hampshire has undergone eye surgery to remove cataracts and has received new synthetic lenses. Banner, a 4-year-old falcon, lost its sight and hasn't been able to fly or hunt for the past two years. This week, a team at Capital...

Town Helps Boys After Lemonade Stand Cash Is Stolen

Even 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' author offered distraught boys money, advice

(Newser) - Spencer Bergman really wanted a dog, and his mom said if he could save up $500, he could get one. His pal Spencer Tarbet needed to save money for Scout camp. So the two boys, ages 13 and 12, set up a lemonade stand over the summer in their Round...

Donations, Big and Small, Make Waves
 Donations, 
 Big and Small, 
 Make Waves 
5 most uplifting
Sep 28, 2014 2:00 AM CDT

Donations, Big and Small, Make Waves

5 most uplifting stories of the week

(Newser) - A church windfall and a plea from a man's two young daughters to save his life highlight the week's list of most uplifting stories:
  • Church Hands Each Member $500, With Instructions : After landing big money in a real estate transaction, a Chicago church opted to give a tenth
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