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A Naperville teenager is hoping to inspire others with a song he composed while battling brain cancer. Listen to the full song here.

Imagine going to a fast food restaurant for a quick bite to eat and getting handed a bag full of cash – $5,000 to be exact. The situation became reality for a northern Indiana man who went to a McDonald’s in Elkhart, Indiana, for a McMuffin, the IndyStar newspaper reported. Once at the pick-up window, Josiah Vargas says he was…

A San Francisco Animal Care and Control officer managed to rescue a puppy who was found trapped under a large pile of rocks at Ocean Beach.

Josiah Vargas says he was picking up his Sausage McMuffin sandwich when he realized that the employee at the window had given him more than he ordered.

The child had dropped the doll while she was waiting for the school bus.

A McDonald’s in northern Indiana accidentally gave a TikTok user @dookiedoeboy a bag containing thousands of dollars in cash instead of his order. After returning the money to the store, he says the employees offered him free McDonald’s for a month and $200 to show their gratitude.

An adorable 1-year-old pup whose New Jersey owner allegedly tied her up outside an airport 1,000 miles from home — and then left her there as he flew back to the East Coast — has been adopted by a family who spotted her the same day she was abandoned, the animal rescue group that took her in announced Thursday. The…

The pastor for a New Jersey couple was in the middle of delivering the wedding vows when he collapsed at the altar, going into cardiac arrest — but thankfully a caterer for the wedding was also an EMT, and worked on him for a half-hour by herself to help save his life.

Dr. Steven Lome had an emotional reunion with two fellow runners whose lives he helped save with CPR when they collapsed at a half marathon last month.

Travel nurse Antoinette Smith, her husband and 6-year-old grandson found themselves stranded at San Francisco International Airport on Christmas Eve, staring down the likelihood of sleeping on the airport floor for the next few nights.

How did a massive oil tanker heading from Amsterdam to New York stumble upon the battered sailboat lost at sea, carrying the two friends from Cape May, New Jersey, and Minnie the poodle — all of whom were on the brink of death?

A look back at the top news headlines for this week in news with Evrod Cassimy.

It all started with a daughter’s simple Christmas wish: to bring her mother’s restaurant some customers. And it ended up becoming something so much more. NBC 5’s Karen Aguilar reports.

What all started with a daughter’s simple Christmas wish, ended up becoming something so much more.

A suburban Chicago taco shop went viral after the owner’s daughter posted a message asking for customers for her mom for Christmas — and TikTokers delivered in a big way.

A suburban Chicago taco shop went viral after the owner’s daughter posted a message asking for customers for her mom for Christmas — and TikTokers delivered in a big way.

If there is a such thing as an ordinary heart transplant, this was not it. It marked the first time an HIV positive patient received a heart from an HIV positive donor.

NBC 5’s Allison Rosati is Happy to Report all the good news happening around the Chicago area and beyond this week, including the story of a suburban student who was honored for her lifesaving actions and a submarine crew’s important mission.

Are healthy living and exercise the tickets to a long life? Maybe, but for one New York City woman, she says the key is much simpler — and much more enjoyable.

NBC 5’s Allison Rosati is Happy to Report all the good news happening around the Chicago area and beyond this week, from a memorable 100th birthday celebration for a World War II veteran and the story of the Chicago professor who took home a Nobel Prize.