“But once you got to know him, he was just a big teddy bear with a giant heart,” he said. “People called him the adorable curmudgeon.” Jim Pratt, a vineyard adviser who was friends with ...

“My girls thought he looked like a teddy bear so they named him Bear," she said. "With a lot of patience, a lot of love, a lot of care, a lot of walks, and occasional trips to the doggy park he ...

In an upstairs bedroom, detectives moved an adult-size teddy bear to make sure no one was underneath it and, while doing so, felt something hard. That object turned out to be a handgun.

TEN YEARS LATER, AN ANONYMOUS COMMUNITY MEMBER IS HONORING HER BEAR WITH A SPECIAL GIFT TO THE ELK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT. 50 TEDDY BEARS TO GIVE OUT ON CALLS WITH KIDS ON SCENE. IT JUST GOES TO SHOW ...

Lakisha Johnson has a heart for the children removed from their homes by Department of Children’s Services because she was that child when she was 16. (Lakisha’s story.) She remembers receiving a ...