April 14, 2026

Wild Turkeys delay Staten Island Subway

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A Doctor Adopts a Young Heart Patient, New Prostate Scan, and More
Johnny Mack presents five good news stories: a 4-year-old boy named True, born with congenital heart disease and in foster care, arrived alone for a seven-hour heart surgery at Children’s Nebraska Hospital when his social worker had COVID; anesthesiologist Dr. Amy and her husband Ryan adopted him a month later, and with help from relatives and a coworker, all six siblings found homes, including True’s sister Lainey adopted by Amy and Ryan. A PSMA PET/CT scan that makes prostate cancer cells glow may reduce invasive biopsies; in a 660-man study it helped identify low-risk or no-cancer cases that avoided biopsy while enabling targeted biopsies for positive scans. Johnny Cruz Buckingham set a record skiing on asphalt at 69 mph. At Chester Zoo, critically endangered rollaway monkey Messiah had pioneering foot surgery and soon gave birth to a healthy daughter, Laha. Staten Island Railway delays were caused by wild turkeys on the tracks, believed descended from pets released in 1999.

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. A four year old boy was headed

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into heart surgery completely alone. He ended up with not

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just a doctor, but a mother, a family, and a future.

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True was born with congenital heart disease. He had spent

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his early life in foster care. In twenty twenty two,

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he arrived at Children's Nebraska Hospital for a major operation,

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but because his social worker had COVID, he had no

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one there with him. That's where doctor Amy ran into him.

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She's an anesthesiologist. She said, he was sitting there all alone.

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It took me back that this four year old was

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going through heart surgery nobody was there. True surgery lasted

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around seven hours. Amy couldn't stop thinking about him. Afterwards.

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She reached out to learn more about him and discovered

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he had six siblings, most of whom were also struggling

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in unstable placements. Following a domestic violence situation, True's caseworker

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asked doctor Amy, could you take him? Amy already had

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a large family six children of her own, but she

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felt there was room for one more. She explained, after

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I dropped True off in recovery, I called my husband.

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I said, we just have to have a talk when

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I get home. I need you to have an open mind.

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Ryan met True and the decision was immediate. The couple

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adopted him about one month after his surgery. They wanted

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to keep True's siblings close to him. Her sister adopted

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one of the siblings, her sister in law adopted another.

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A co worker adopted two more. Then Amy and husband

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Ryan opened their home again, adopting True's sister Laney. All

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six found homs. A new type of scan makes prostate

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cancer cells glow that could dramatically reduce the need for

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invasive biopsies. The technology is known as a PSMA pet

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slash CT scan. It works by using a molecule that

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binds to prostate cancer cells, causing them to light up

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as bright spots during imaging. That allows doctors to more

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clearly identify aggressive cancers while avoiding unnecessary procedures for low

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risk cases. Rostate cancer is one of the most common

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cancers in men, affecting about one in eight six hundred

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and sixty men were part of a study. Scans were

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able to identify men who either did not have cancer

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or had cancers so slow growing they were unlikely to

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cause harm. Those patients avoided biopsies entirely, while patients with

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positive scan results underwent more targeted biopsies. Congratulations to a

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man who calls himself Mister World Records. Well. Johnny Cruz

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Buckingham aka Mister World Records set the record for reaching

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a speed of sixty nine miles an hour while skiing

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on asphalts. That's right, is the record for fastest towed

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asphalt skiing. Mister World Record said, I want to inspire

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my child Hurricane to set big goals and reach for

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the stars. Good news out of the Chester Zoo, a

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critically endangered rollaway monkey has successfully given birth just weeks

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after undergoing a groundbreaking surgical procedure that had never been

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performed on the species before. Messiah is a fifteen year

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old monkey and became the first rollaway monkey in captivity

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to under surgery after vets discovered a golf ball sized

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apsssenter foot. Messiah recovered well and went on to give

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birth to a healthy daughter named logirtha Pribabmate keeper Zoe

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said Messiah is a very experienced mom and she's parenting magnificently.

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The fact Messiah's foot healed so well as a huge relief.

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If she'd had had a full imputation, we've been left

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with real questions about whether she could hold her offspring

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or continuing with her normal behaviors. Logurtha is the third

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rollaway monkey born at the zoo since the first successful

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captive birth in twenty twenty. There were only a handful

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of breeding femies across European zoos, including just one other

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in England and Johnny Mack why are we late for

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work this time? Well, you see, boss I was there

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on the train on Monday at two thirty in the

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afternoon and turkeys were spotted on the tracks just west

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of Staten Island Railway's Old Town station. An MTA spokesperson

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told the New York Daily News that the turkeys were

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eventually scattered after a multiple blasts of a train horn. However,

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turkeys were spotted on the tracks again around four pm.

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Those turkeys also so scattered at the sound of a

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train horn. The Burroughs Wild Circuits are believed to be

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descended from several pets that were released into the wild

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in nineteen ninety nine. And those are five good news

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stories for Today