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Teacher Of The Day: Jennie Bell We want to recognize a special teacher or support staff member as part of our daily Something Good segment. Jennie Bell is a registrar at Coweta Public Schools. Jennie was recently chosen as a support staff person of the year! She works in the office at Coweta Intermediate School. The person who nominated her says "the honor is so well deserved and the school would be lost without Jennie. We are lucky to have her as an employee at Coweta!" They added, "We can as...

By: Brian Mueller OKLAHOMA CITY - The Junior League of Oklahoma City has been helping their community for nearly 100 years, but this year has brought quite a few challenges.  The womens volunteer group has had to color a little outside the lines this past year to stay engaged with their community.  “We had to get creative about what we were doing because we still wanted to engage with them and we wanted to keep our volunteers involved as well," said Natalie Fix, a Junior League of OKC me...

Mom fights for research for rare genetic disease that mimicked autism in her son Dawn Jorgenson, Digital Content Editor, Graham Media Group Published:  Tags:  Holding hands. (Photo by cottonbro from Pexels.) This story is a part of our "Something Good" series, which is designed to remind you of all the goodness in the world: the moments that can make you smile, feel warm inside and applaud humanity. When Connor Dobbyn was young, his parents began seeing developmental delays. Until the boy was...

Tulsa Nonprofit Grateful For Community Support In Helping Kids Follow Their Dreams The community is coming together to support a Tulsa nonprofit that helps kids follow their dreams. The Wesley Chapel just held its annual fundraiser, after the event was postponed by the winter storm.  "This is our annual gala this year it is called The Night of Love and our focus is on loving God, loving one another, and loving the children of North Tulsa," said Pastor Chris Beach of Wesley Chapel, Tulsa. ...

SAPD officers come through for girl who lost toys in drive-by shooting Officers delivered new toys to Nevaeh Rodriguez Tags:  Two San Antonio police officers showed up at her door Monday bearing gifts. They handed over several new toys to Nevaeh Rodriguez. A photo shared by her mother, Tina Rodriguez, shows her beaming with joy. Someone sprayed the family’s home with gunfire in early morning attacks twice this week. Bullets tore into their home and the one next door to them in the 400 bloc...

A Southwest Airlines employee went “to infinity and beyond” to return a young boy’s lost Buzz Lightyear toy left on a plane at Dallas Love Field Airport earlier this week.

Act Of Kindness Catches On As Tulsa Barbecue Food Truck Owner Gives Back To Community A food truck owner and his customers are giving back to the community, and he said he was inspired by one of News On 6’s Something Good stories.  Welcome to Phillip Gilbertsons dream. "I get up every day at 3:30 a.m. and I am up here at 4:15 a.m. and I probably dont get home until 6-6:30 at night. I do that Tuesday through Saturday," said Gilbertson, owner of Tulsa Brisket Company. Everything he sells is ...

By: Brian Mueller As the captain of her school’s safety program, Katelin Eden is always willing to walk the extra mile when it comes to keeping her classmates safe.  “I like what I’m doing right now. It’s called the floater where I walk back and forth. I just do the thumbs up to people to know if they’re OK or if they need any help or anything," said Katelin, a 5th grader at Monroe Elementary School in Norman. Helping is what AAAs School Safety Patrol program is all about.  These s...

Back in September, Vang complained about having trouble breathing and sleeping. As it turns out, she was seriously ill. A new mother gave birth to her first child this week months after her heart failed during pregnancy. "She was pretty sick," Dr. Richard Ha, chief of cardiac surgery at Kaiser Santa Clara, said. "She came from our Kaiser Sacramento program. She was brought here because she was in acute heart failure. Her heart was functioning at about 20%. Normally, people function at 65...

There’s been a lot going in the world lately.