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The owner of a New Jersey pet store said that three rare, expensive birds that were stolen from the shop over the weekend have been returned, along with an apology note.

The vehicle wasn’t in park — and started to roll forward onto a sidewalk where students were standing, officials say. The parent wasn’t anywhere near the car.

There is some good news for the people who are looking for a first-time salaried job. We all know college loans are rising dramatically, but at least salaries seem to be now, too. The National Association of Colleges and Employers said the average starting salary for the class of 2020 is up about 2.5% from the year before. And more…

Over the past few years, the average starting salary for college graduates has gone up by thousands of dollars.

Forget a 10, 15 or 20 percent tip — a server at a Connecticut restaurant is still in disbelief after getting a 200 percent tip from a customer.

The backyard for the Cifuni family is usually a calm and relaxing place, but that was interrupted Saturday afternoon when an unexpected visitor showed up at the pool: a baby deer, struggling to swim.

The San Diego Padres gave 15-year-old Landis Sims an honorary contract with the team. The rising baseball star, who was born limb deficient, wowed Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove with a game of catch on the Petco Park field on Sunday.

Then-Yankees general manager Roy Hamey wrote Gwen Goldman a letter on June 23, 1961, in which he denied her request to be a ball girl, saying: “I am sure you can understand that it is a game dominated by men a young lady such as yourself would feel out of place in a dugout.”

For 16 days, a couple searched through the woods and trudged in the swampy marshland at Barnegat Bay along the Jersey Shore in an effort to find their lost 3-year-old pup named Chunk — and were relieved when state troopers rescued him after finding him swimming in the bay.

Peter Marshall and his wife, Lisa, have been married for 12 years. But with Peter battling early onset Alzheimer’s that he was diagnosed with a few years ago, he doesn’t remember that wedding happening — he just knows that he loves Lisa.

Serena Torres said she doesn’t remember a lot from those months she spent in the hospital as she battled to stay alive, but she does remember her reason to fight: Little Alessandra Rose, her heathy daughter, who was waiting to meet her mom

Buying something in bulk is usually a better deal but the mother of 4-year-old Noah from Brooklyn definitely wasn’t thrilled when she saw he had bought 51 cases of SpongeBob SquarePants popsicles on Amazon.

A pair of Westchester County police officers are being praised after opting to put compassion before handcuffs, as they bought a pair of socks for a homeless man who was caught trying to steal them.

Inside a bag that was left behind on a Long Island Rail Road train, a conductor found a jewelry portfolio containing 36 precious diamond ring settings — valued at around $100,000

A brother and sister were separately adopted, and never knew their sibling existed for decades. When they finally met, both said it was like they already knew each other.

Twenty-three years ago, a firefighter rushed into a burning home in Poughkeepsie with two young brothers inside. One of them died in the fire, but the other, a 3-year-old, was rescued, and over the weekend, he reunited for the first time with the man who saved him.

After a year of physical distancing, a New York City grandmother finally received a prescription she had been waiting for: a hug.

A woman unexpectedly reunited with her lost wallet has met the once anonymous Good Samaritan who went out of his way to deliver it to her home

Christine Pathak has marked every milestone in a hospital — most of them inside St. Mary’s in Queens. Everything from trick-or-treating to Thanksgiving to Christmas to birthdays were celebrated at the hospital. That all changed Friday. It was during her time hospitalized, when there were moments that standing seemed impossible for the now 2-and-a-half-year-old. The fact that she walked through…

A good Samaritan is being praised for his kind-hearted act of anonymously returning a Florida woman’s lost wallet