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October was filled with so much good news, it's easy to overlook some of it!
Today, we're highlighting the most-clicked stories from the past month — to help make sure you catch all the good news you might have missed.
Photo: Courtesy of WFLA News
Interrupting their live report, a Florida news crew rescued a family from Hurricane Milton waters
The news team quickly jumped into action to help, alongside a local samaritan and their car's headlights, and the family found a path out, wading through the water to safety.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, a national helpline is providing free disaster crisis counseling to those in need
The Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration created the Disaster Distress Helpline — the first national hotline dedicated to providing free disaster crisis counseling 24/7 in more than 100 languages.
Seven years after Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico, FEMA announced new aid for crucial nonprofits
Islands throughout the Caribbean were impacted by the storm, but Puerto Rico was hit the hardest — accounting for a staggering 97% of the 3,059 total deaths.
After Helene left manatees stranded, rescue crews quickly jumped in to save them
The storm's 15-foot storm surge impacted the state's beloved "sea cows," leaving countless manatees stranded throughout the state in city streets, fields, and ponds.
A TikToker used the internet fame of Moo Deng the hippo and Pesto the penguin to raise money for wildlife charities
With votes topping 250,000 each day, creator @indipine used the viral opportunity to fundraise for wildlife sanctuaries like the KSTR Wildlife Rescue, and Alaska Sealife Center.
A study found that grocery stores that donate expiring food — instead of discounting or discarding — make higher profits
Retailers donate products that are typically packaged, palatable and safe for consumption, yet unsuitable for sale due to quality concerns, such as minor blemishes — but they go a long way to feeding hungry people.
Heidi Klum is supporting the return of UNICEF's "Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF" program in its 75th year
With Klum's support, the organization hopes to build on the annual campaign's nearly $200 million fundraising total as "the longest-running youth engagement campaign in the United States."
Ahead of Hurricane Milton, animal shelters rescued cats and dogs in the storm's path across Florida
The collaboration to help animals brought together rescues, shelters, and boarding kennels across the country — one nonprofit and a kennel in D.C. and Northern Virginia teamed up to take in 100 animals alone.
Thanks to Olympian Allyson Felix, parents across the U.S. can get free child care to vote on Election Day
Lack of access to childcare, especially for Black parents in underresourced communities, is a major barrier to voting for many people — Felix partnered with Chamber of Mothers to reimburse childcare costs.
Monarch butterflies could be wiped out by 2090 — a group of scientists are moving a forest to save them
They're using a technique called "assisted migration" to situate the forest at a higher elevation to protect the species they house — and have new proof that it's working.
A service dog is stealing the show in a 300-person university marching band
College sophomore Gabbi Riessen needed more help participating in band and theater due to her disability, and her school's marching band welcomed her service dog as an unofficial member, too.
Jenna Fischer revealed her breast cancer diagnosis and reminded women to get mammograms
Her journey started nearly a year ago, when she posted about preparing for her routine mammogram, quoting her TV boss Michael Scott and reminding her audience to "take care of your ticking time bags."
Saved by a grassroots letter-writing campaign, a midwestern U.S. wildlife refuge is now celebrating 100 years of habitat protection
After two years of campaigning, Congress passed the "Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge Act" protecting more than 240,000 acres of Mississippi River floodplain.
Over a decade in the making, a deaf engineer debuted an AI model that transcribes sign language to text in seconds
A "bridge between the Deaf world and the hearing world," Omnibridge is engineered to transcribe spoken English and interpret sign language on screen in seconds.
After her late husband told her women shouldn't vote, an 81-year-old Georgia widow voted for the first time
Betty Cartledge never voted before because her late husband "didn't think she should," but after he passed away in 2023, she realized that it wasn't too late to exercise her right to vote.
Scientists invented a new "bioplastic" that degrades in water faster than paper to replace Styrofoam and single-use plastics
Following years of testing, the plastic-like polymer derived from wood pulp has been found to be the fastest-degrading bioplastic material tested in seawater.
A Chicago man ran 26.2 miles around his neighborhood block and raised over $12,000 for the community homeless shelter
By the time the race had been completed on Saturday, Brusich racked up about $11,000 in donations, and his pledge page now boasts over $12,000, as gifts keep pouring in after the fact.
A North Carolina state senate candidate is running a race she's guaranteed to lose to raise awareness about gerrymandering
Kate Barr, who is running for state senate in North Carolina's 37th District, says she was "gerrymandered out of a chance" — so she's running her campaign on the promise that she won't win.
It was really incredible to see so many stories of people helping and making a difference after back-to-back major hurricanes impacted the southern U.S. — especially in non-coastal states.
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