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News Reel - 8/14/24

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 She Gave Her Homecoming Crown Away Nyla Covington wins Homecoming Queen and is crowned accordingly. However, she decided to give it to another nominee who just lost her mom earlier that day. Special Needs Kiddos Get Some Custom Wheels "Adaptive Bikes" are what a charity called Variety specializes in. They serve the special needs community by providing bicycles that are customized to each rider and their specific disability. Bride Interrupts Father-Daughter Dance For a Heartwarming Reason Just halfway through her dance with dad, this bride stops and explains over the microphone that she wants to give the 2nd half of the dance to her sister who eloped and never had the opportunity. He Dialed 911 to Report His Birthday Police got a call from an autistic young man who wanted people to know it was his birthday. Instead of a lecture or punishment for misuse of emergency service numbers, the police show up to his house with a cake in hand. Mom Receives Stern Lecture for Being Pregn...

News Reel - 12/24/23

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Medical Students Understand the Power of  Baby Shark Song Sometimes caring for a patient calls for an impromptu song. God bless these medical students for comforting this scared little guy before surgery! Teaching Financial Literacy, A Wonderful Idea Kindergarten teacher Allera Padgett teaches her students about financial responsibility using weekly pay checks, bills like rent that are due, and bonuses for excellence. Wish this was more common throughout the school system. And The Blind Shall Run Track With the help of a sighted male runner this blind female athlete sets a record in her event and shows viewers just how much the human race is capable of! Not Something You Can Bring to Show & Tell She had a bright idea for show & tell but mom got suspicious and had to investigate. Watch and see what this little girl decided to stow in her backpack for the trip to school. Literal Good Samaritan Helps Man on Side of Road A literal embodiment of a Good Samaritan, this woman noti...

Giving Birth in a Coma

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 We've all seen the Hollywood depiction of the person who wakes up from a coma only to find out ten years or more have passed. They spend the rest of the movie adapting to what seems to them like time travel. Some friends and family have moved, others maybe passed away, and technology is next level not to mention confusing. Well imagine your last memory was being pregnant and coming down with the flu and then your next waking experience being in a hospital with no pregnant belly. That is exactly what happened to Tess Frame in this wild but very true story. Tess in a coma with husband Conrad at bedside Turns out Tess, due to the size of her belly, could not properly cough up and clear her lungs during the flu episode so she soon got pneumonia and turned septic. As her lungs began to fail, her husband took her to the hospital where medical staff immediately realized the danger and put her into an induced coma along with life support. This triggered premature labor and the early birth...

Band of Brothers Fill the Gap

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Soldiers cradling Christian Though Uplift focuses on good news, its practically impossible for the bad news to stay completely out. Without the bad, how would we know what good is? Furthermore, we find that often uplifting stories are born out of tragedy with humankind rallying around one another to get through a tough time. This is one of those instances as US Army Specialist Chris Harris was killed by a suicide bomber while on deployment in Afghanistan shortly after finding out his wife at home was pregnant.  Left a widow so young with a child on the way Harris' bride, Britt had to think about what her husband would want her to do. It didn't take long for her to reach out to his "brotherhood" of "extended family"  knowing how much Chris depended upon them and they were happy to fill the gaps. A heartwarming video of the soldiers doing a gender reveal ceremony can be seen as pink confetti flies through the air and soldiers celebrate with dabs and joyful s...