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Newsweek
14-05-2025
- General
- Newsweek
Woman Spots 'Given Up' Kitten in Pool of Water, She Knows What To Do
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. When a woman from South Carolina found a tiny tuxedo kitten lying face down in a puddle in the middle of the road, she didn't hesitate to step in and save his life. In a viral TikTok video shared on Monday under the username @mikeysmadlit, the poster's wife can be seen carefully approaching the kitten, then gently lifting him from the water, and taking him away to safety. At the end of the clip, the small kitty can be seen drying off inside a cardboard box filled with warm towels. "My wife got chosen on Mother's Day" the poster wrote in the caption. After taking him to the veterinarian the day after, the poster and his wife learned that the kitty is a male, estimated to be around six weeks old, weighing a healthy 1.5 pounds. In a follow up video, the poster revealed that the family has officially named the kitted Jaxson, in memory of their recently passed fur-baby. It is estimated that there are currently between 60 and 100 million stray and feral cats across America, and most of them live their life in the streets without ever even making it to an animal shelter. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), the number of cats that entered U.S. shelters last year amounted to just short of 3 millions. While 2.2 millions were adopted, others didn't get as lucky. In 2024, about 273,000 shelter cats were euthanized, and 369,000 were transferred to other organizations. Some states see more animals dropped off by their owners or found as strays than others. Statista says that western states have much higher rates, with New Mexico topping the list with over 3,200 animals surrendered per 100,000 inhabitants. A stock image shows a wet, dishevelled kitten in the middle of the street. A stock image shows a wet, dishevelled kitten in the middle of the street. getty images The video quickly went viral on social media and it has so far received over 5.6 million views and 1.2 million likes on the platform. One user, Donna Ahrlett, commented: "That poor baby had given up." Connieleeinred said: "He just gave up, I can tell the way he just laid in that water, you were his savior and a blessing. Thank you." Another user, TRAV, wrote: "That would have broken me seeing that baby laying in a puddle." Rachel added: "I'm bawling, the poor thing." Newsweek reached out to @mikeysmadlit for comment via TikTok comments. We could not verify the details of the case. Do you have funny and adorable videos or pictures of your pet you want to share? Send them to life@ with some details about your best friend and they could appear in our Pet of the Week lineup.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Athlete of the week: Jaxson Hubble
Our athlete of the week is one of Texoma's latest state champions from the 2025 UIL state track & field meet!Jacksboro's Jaxson Hubble, competing in the seated shot put, had a throw of 26 feet 10.5 inches. That is nearly one foot better than the second place part of earning our honor, Jaxson will be featured on the digital billboard on Lawrence Road in Wichita Falls this also becomes eligible to win a scholarship courtesy of United Regional Orthopedics at the 2025 Nexstar Sports Awards in July. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Miami Herald
16-04-2025
- Miami Herald
This South Florida city had a theme park and an oceanfront mall. Take a look
The city was known as Modello at first, for the Florida East Coast Railway's Model Land Co. Later, it was renamed by a delegation of Danes from Wisconsin, led by A.C. Frost. Formed in 1904, Dania was the first Broward city to be incorporated. The city, now known as Dania Beach, is best known for its jai alai fronton, antique district, Canadian visitors, fishing pier and Jaxson's ice cream parlor. In decades part, Dania beach was home to Pirates World, a theme park and concert venue, and an oceanfront dining and shopping complex called SeaFair. Here's a look at Dania Beach through the years from the photo archives of the Miami Herald: Pirates World Along the ocean Jai alai Downtown Downtown Dania Beach along US. 1 in 1999. Candace West Miami Herald File Early years
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Bald for Bucks aims to raise $70,000 for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — District 20 students and staff participated in its annual 'Bald for Bucks,' on Friday, Feb. 28, to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS). Each year, the event sponsors a local child who has experienced blood cancer. This year's Hero Child, 8-year-old Jaxson, was diagnosed with multiple metastatic glioblastomas and passed away a week before the event. The Bald for Bucks event went on in his memory, and honored his life and his love for Spiderman, in addition to raising money for LLS' and his family. This year, more than 2,000 were in attendance at Rampart High School's gymnasium, and more than 160 students and staff cut or shaved their hair to help reach the fundraising goal of $70,000. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Monday is Mr. George Hadley Day: Do you know his connection to Jaxson's Ice Cream Parlor?
There's the origin story about Dania Beach icon Jaxson's Ice Cream Parlor & Restaurant that founder Monroe Udell liked to tell customers, and then there was the truth. The popular-yet-untrue version is that Udell, a Connecticut native, named Jaxson's after his father — in other words, Jack's son. But the real reason is firmly rooted in the racist and segregationist laws of the 1950s: Neither Blacks nor Jews could own business licenses in Dania Beach, so Udell pretended to be gentile, naming his scoop shop not after his father, Harry, but after Jackson Street in nearby Hollywood because it sounded fittingly Southern. It wasn't in Udell's nature to talk about the antisemitism he faced — and he especially kept quiet his practice of hiring Black employees in the Jim Crow South — including the soft-spoken ice cream man who made the banana splits and kitchen sinks at the soda fountain window for 38 years: George Hadley. Hadley, who worked at Jaxson's from 1958 until his death in 1996 at age 53, is now the focus of two Black History Month tributes. First, the city of Dania Beach has declared Feb. 24 as Mr. George Hadley Day, saluting one of the first Black employees at Jaxson's. And Jaxson's owner Linda Udell Zakheim has donated an original 1950s 'Kitchen Sink,' the parlor's signature dessert vessel (minus the 4 pounds of ice cream, flags and sparklers), for History Fort Lauderdale's permanent exhibit 'Roots of Resilience: The Journey of Black Broward,' which debuted Feb. 19. The show traces the county's Black residents through historic artifacts, photos and oral histories, from slavery through Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement to present day. 'When you think of George, you think of Jaxson's Kitchen Sink,' Jerry Hadley, George's brother, tells the South Florida Sun Sentinel. 'It's a great symbolic gesture to recognize him for the thing he did best, so it means a lot. It shows that he was worthy.' And he was a vital member of the Jaxson's family, if you ask Udell Zakheim, Monroe Udell's daughter, who took over the ice-creamery after her father died in 2014. She remembers Hadley as a 'stoic, friendly and generous' man whom Udell hired in the waning years of the Jim Crow era, when segregation banned hiring Black employees in white businesses. Besides prepping Jaxson's 50-plus flavors from bubble gum to Grape Nuts, Hadley made whipped cream and syrup toppings from scratch, she recalls. Before segregation laws lifted in 1966, Hadley initially worked in the Jaxson's kitchen, hidden from view. But afterward, Hadley spent the next three decades running the soda fountain, preparing orders at lightning speed. Hadley was a friendly fixture of her childhood, she says. And his Kitchen Sinks, those mini-mountains of ice cream crowned with sugary, patriotic goodness? 'Perfection,' Udell Zakheim recalls, especially his 'expert whipped cream technique … He put these triangles of fluffiness on top — and that's not easy with our cream dispenser.' As an infant, George Hadley, his parents and 11 brothers and sisters moved from Titusville to Hollywood's Liberia neighborhood in the 1940s when their father took a job with Florida's East Coast Railroad. Jaxson's hired him at age 15, when 'Black folks were lucky to get a job anywhere,' recalls brother Jerry Hadley, now 75 and living in Dania Beach. 'The fact that [George] was working, if you ever needed money, you could ask him, and he would not hesitate to give you a couple of dollars or buy you school clothes,' his brother says. 'He was a good person who ran track and played tennis at Attucks [High School].' He says he never visited his older brother at Jaxson's — and never visited the ice-cream parlor until 2023, when he retired to Dania Beach after a 56-year career as a New York City accountant. 'I moved away when the area was still segregated,' he says. 'And I'm sure people had prejudice toward George at the soda fountain, but he always took it in stride. Jaxson's always treated him so special, so it's an honor for him to be celebrated.' Raised in a working-class Connecticut neighborhood where he was bullied and beaten for being Jewish, Jaxson's founder Monroe Udell felt compassion for other victims of discrimination, which is why he secretly hired Blacks during racial segregation, his daughter says. He 'didn't tell the city' his ethnicity, and even conjured a fake Jaxson's origin story to 'stay under the radar of being Jewish.' 'Dad didn't want anyone knowing what his political views were, and he didn't feel the need to make waves,' she says. 'For him, it was all about ice cream.' When she shared Jaxson's true story and diverse hiring practices with local researcher Mary Russ-Milligan recently, the duo came up with a plan to donate a Kitchen Sink vessel to History Fort Lauderdale in Hadley's memory. Russ-Milligan, who helped create the 'Roots of Resilience' exhibit, says Hadley was more than just a 'very special employee who impacted Mr. Monroe's life' — he helped the Liberia community around him. 'During segregation, George was in the back of Jaxson's as a hidden figure, but once he was in the front, he could serve Black people,' Russ-Milligan says. 'Black people couldn't sit inside the restaurant, so the soda fountain gave him the opportunity to serve Blacks ice cream outside.' Udell Zakheim says he and her father worked side by side to make the parlor's signature desserts perfect. 'Dad mentored him as an employee, but they were also close friends,' Udell Zakheim says. 'George was the face of the takeout window at a time when no one hired people of color. And he was the best.' Jaxson's Ice Cream Parlor & Restaurant is at 128 S. Federal Highway, Dania Beach. Visit or call 954-923-4445. WHAT: 'Roots of Resilience: The Journey of Black Broward' WHERE: History Fort Lauderdale, 231 SW Second Ave. COST: Self-guided tour costs $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, $5 for students Guided tours are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $7 for students Entry is free for accompanied children age 6 and younger, and for active and senior military members INFORMATION: 954-463-4431 or go to
