The cops find a wedding dress, and more

The cops find a wedding dress

Police officers John McKenna and Paul Sandoval pulled over a stolen vehicle in Chicago last week, only to discover a brand-new wedding dress in the trunk. When they tracked down the car’s owners, they found that it had been stolen from a couple preparing to tie the knot the following day. The officers volunteered to drive the car—and the dress—to the distraught couple in time for the wedding. “There was other stuff missing from the vehicle,” said Sandoval. “But as soon as [the bride] saw the wedding dress she was ecstatic.”

Students set a record on the White House lawn

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Michelle Obama joined more than 300,000 people setting a new world record this week—the largest group of people performing jumping jacks within a single 24-hour period. The First Lady led 464 elementary and middle-school students in a jumping-jack session on the White House lawn, part of a total of 300,265 people around the world in the record-breaking event. The jumpers, who hailed from places as far afield as the Cayman Islands and Hawaii, easily broke the previous record of 20,425. The event was organized in support of the First Lady’s initiative to promote physical fitness in children.

Siblings reunite after 80 years

A brother and sister who’d been separated for 80 years were reunited last week in Brunswick, Maine. Doris Petre, 84, was separated from her brother, Richard Watrous, in 1931, after their mother died suddenly and the youngsters were sent to separate homes. But Petre discovered earlier this year that her 87-year-old sibling was alive and well. Last week, the pair finally met up again after eight decades apart. “I just want to get talking to him, mend all those years for whatever years we have left,” said Petre.