A first haircut at 14, and more

A first haircut at 14

In honor of his Cherokee heritage, Jerry Brown of Pasco County, Fla., had never had a haircut in all his 14 years—until last month. “I saw some patients that are cancer patients with no hair and I wanted to give them hair so they can live normal lives,” he said. He had 23 inches of his hair lopped off and donated it to Locks of Love, a nonprofit organization that provides hairpieces to children and teenagers who experience long-term medical hair loss. “That’s just the kind of kid he is,” said his father, Jerry Brown Sr. “If he can help somebody, he does.”

Cats survive two weeks under tornado debris

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When a tornado hit Monson, Mass., on June 1, it flattened the house where Michael Roescher and his stepdaughter Kelly McClure lived, destroying their possessions and, worst of all, causing their seven cats to vanish. “They were the only thing that has mattered from the beginning,” McClure said. “We didn’t care about the stuff.” It took them two weeks, but after digging through the rubble and setting out tuna as bait, they managed to find all seven cats alive. “Beyond belief, I am shocked,” Roescher said. “How did they survive?”