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.”
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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.
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