A Michigan family is crediting their new puppy with saving their lives.

Around midnight on March 5, Hunter, a three-month-old rescue puppy who had been adopted only two weeks earlier, woke his new owners with a nonstop whine.

Jill McLarty assumed her new puppy just needed to be let out. When she led the Husky mix outside, he simply sat down and continued to cry.

She brought Hunter to the bedroom where her husband, Tim, was still sleeping. The dog kept whining, eventually running in circles before leading Jill to the kitchen.

"When she turned the light on, she saw Hunter sitting next to the stove, and noticed that one of the gas stove burners was on low, without a flame, causing gas to leak into the house," Michigan Humane Society staffers wrote in a press release.

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The McLartys believe the gas had been on since they cooked dinner, nearly six hours earlier.

"Somehow the flame went out, but no one noticed

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On March 6, Brandon Kalendra and his family visited Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro.

His mother-in-law insisted on the family field trip after watching a segment of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting where the Duggar family went diamond-hunting at the park.

It turns out, sometimes the mother-in-law really does know best.

Kalendra found a triangular-shaped 2.89 carat white diamond — Park Interpreter Margi Jenks said it was about the size of a pea — after searching for only about 20 minutes in the Fugitt's Bank area of the park.

"We encourage park visitors to look for pockets or layers on the surface of gravel, and search there," Jenks said.

Kalendra told the park he plans to keep the diamond. (The park is famous for its "finders, keepers" policy.) Its value had not yet been determined.

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Kalendra named the rock "Jax Diamond" after Jackson, his infant son.

His find was the fourth diamond weighing more

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It was a horrifying sight.

On Monday morning, staff and students arrived at Vasa Real school in central Stockholm to find Nazi graffiti covering the building.

On its walls were swastikas, derogatory phrases directed at Jews, and the number 1488, a symbol for the Nazi greeting "Heil Hitler."

This particular school of 800-plus students offers three classes for Jewish children who study Hebrew and Jewish studies in addition to the Swedish curriculum.

"The fact that they targeted a school with Jewish kids is a sign for me that they're really organized. They know exactly what they're doing," concerned parent Calle Nathanson told The Local, offering examples of Nazism spreading through Europe. "It's incredible that (Swedish security police) Säpo doesn't work efficiently with this issue... they must start taking it seriously."

The school closed down for the morning while staff members strategized how to move forward and cleaners scrubbed the hateful markings off the building. The incident is

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Grab a tissue and get ready to call your dad. This one's a real tearjerker.

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An eight-minute Singaporean short film released by Viddsee, a company aiming to expose Asians films to a global audience, is challenging the way we view others, including our parents.

In "Gift," a young man grows up resenting his father for not being rich, never quite understanding the life lessons his dad tried to teach him.

When he finally learns the truth about his father, he stops resenting the man who raised him — and starts living his life in honour of him.

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When six-year-old Van Bernard was just 10 months old, he was diagnosed with a rare degenerative neuromuscular disorder called Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2.

He started using a power wheelchair when he was 18 months old. He spent significant time in the hospital due to double lung pneumonia.

At the Walk for Muscular Dystrophy in Halifax last summer, Van's music therapy teacher, Tom Curry, helped him perform his favourite song, the Lumineers' "Ho Hey."

The video of the heartwarming performance is now going viral.

"Takes a lot of lung muscles to sing like this!!" write Van's parents, Colin and Julie Bernard.

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Van's family is hoping the video of their son will inspire good Samaritans across the country to help them pay for a wheelchair van, as transferring their growing boy from his power chair to a car seat is no longer safe.

"We are blessed that he continues to thrive and grow into an

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When a police officer in Edmond, Oklahoma, heard that a family friend's children were too scared to sleep at night, he did what he could to put their little minds at ease.

Aubrey Craig, 11, and her 9-year-old sister, Ava, were having frequent nightmares that left them worried for their personal safety.

"There are so many bad things out there and you never know what can happen to you," Aubrey told KFOR.

Lieutenant Paul Barbour, a 29-year veteran of the Edmond Police Department, wanted to help.

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"One of the things that probably bothers me the most, is the fact that criminals can take the innocence of a child. And I don’t want that, for my kids or anybody else’s children," he said.

So during a recent graveyard shift, Lieutenant Barbour taped a reassuring note to the Craig's front door.

The note read:

"Hello Ava and Aubrey, This is Lt. Paul Barbour from Edmond P.D. I work the night shift and patrol neighborhoods and

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Not every good deed ends when the cameras stop rolling.

Last week, we shared a heartwarming prank: YouTube prankster Rahat gave a homeless man a "winning" lottery ticket, setting him up for a $1,000 jackpot.

The homeless man, identified now as Eric, was moved to tears — and even offered to share his small fortune.

The video went viral, with strangers across North America asking Rahat how they, too, could help out Eric.

So Rahat set up a fundraising page for Eric.

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"I want to raise $20,000 to help better and improve Eric’s lifestyle. Eric is an extremely genuine person, and he deserves a lot more in life for his heart-warming personality," Rahat wrote on Fundly.

"All proceeds made from this campaign will be completely given towards helping Eric pick himself back up and get him going towards a respectable living once again."

Rahat met his fundraising goal, then promptly beat it. So far, more than $35,000 has poured in

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Last month, 18-year-old Kevin Grow signed a two-day contract with the Philadelphia 76ers after his impressive moves on the court went viral.

The Philadelphia teen, who has Down syndrome, has been the team manager of the Bensalem High School boys basketball team for the past four years. When given the opportunity to play in the Bensalem's second last game of the season, he scored four 3-pointers in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter.

After his skills caught the attention of the Sixers — as part of his ceremonial contract, he took part in pre-game activities and was given his own jersey and roster spot — the Harlem Globetrotters came calling.

First, they awarded the senior a Junior Phenom Award for demonstrating "Globetrotter Spirit."

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Then the team recruited Grow, also known as "KG3," as their 3-point specialist — and asked him to suit up for the fourth quarter of their game in Philadelphia this past Sunday.

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