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➤ While vacationing in Barbados, a 4-year-old tossed a note into the sea. It reached St. Lucia days later, leading to a sweet pen-pal exchange. (See Photos) 

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Pilots Rescue Family After Alaska Crash 

After a father and his two young daughters vanished during a Sunday sightseeing flight, dozens of Alaskan volunteer pilots took to the skies to search the Kenai Peninsula.

With no emergency signal, pilots relied on gut instinct, social media posts, and teamwork. On Monday morning, Pilot Terry Godes spotted the crash site with three figures waving from the wing of a partially submerged plane on Tustumena Lake.

The family had survived 12 freezing hours atop that wing, soaked and exposed after their Piper PA-12 went down near a glacier.

In Alaska, where small planes are lifelines and bad weather comes quickly, neighbors are often the first responders. As one local put it, when a plane goes down, “everybody takes to their planes, and they go out and look.”

One-Armed Player Makes Basketball History

Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel, a 22-year-old guard at Lesley University in Massachusetts, made NCAA Division III history as the first woman with one arm to score in a collegiate basketball game.

After Baileigh was cut from her high school team, her love for basketball—inspired by LeBron James—drove her to continue training and eventually reach the collegiate level.

She quickly impressed Coach Martin Rather with her work ethic and became a key player during Lesley’s best season in 14 years. Her historic first basket—a deep shot that snapped through the net—was followed weeks later by a second basket on her birthday.

Sweethearts Reunite After 85 Years

Childhood sweethearts Jim Dougal and Betty Davidson from Scotland reunited after 85 years thanks to a 1936 school photo.

The pair lost touch when Jim’s family moved away in 1939, but decades later, Jim’s son Alistair tracked down classmates from the photo while researching their family history.

Alistair eventually found Betty, now 96, with help from a local Facebook group. She still had a childhood photo of herself with Jim, and the two reconnected by phone before meeting in person.

Their emotional reunion included recreating the old photo and reminiscing about their early days. “She’s still got that glint in her eye,” Jim said, “and a touch of the fair hair that I remember her by.”