Over the course of a month, NBC 5 documented the process of getting an injured and homeless pet named Peggy ready for adoption.

The most important thing to know about training your new pup, according to Petco dog trainer Chloe Sternlicht, is that dogs respond best to positive reinforcement. So be patient when Fido makes a mistake and smother him with praise and treats when he get it right. Sternlicht gives some tips for getting your dog to respond to basic commands.

Jenna Evans, 29, woke up to find her engagement ring missing from her finger and her bedroom altogether. She said she checks for her ring all the time ever since her fiancé proposed in April.

The Celtics’ first half vs. the Spurs on Saturday was a bittersweet one as they headed into the locker room with an 18-point lead, but lost Gordon Hayward to an apparent hand injury.

Alarmed by rising rates of poaching and deforestation in central Africa, famed American primatologist Dian Fossey, once predicted mountain gorillas could go extinct by 2000. Instead, a concerted and sustained conservation campaign has averted the worst and given a second chance to these great apes, which share about 98% of human DNA. Last fall, the Switzerland-based International Union for Conservation...

Authorities found a loaded handgun in a man’s belongings at Logan International Airport last week, the Transportation Security Administration said, marking the third time this month a traveler has been caught at the airport with a firearm.

Federal airport security officials say two times in three days they have found guns in travelers’ luggage at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

A loaded handgun discovered in a carry-on bag brought a security screening line to a halt at Boston Logan International Airport on Labor Day, officials said. The 9mm gun was found in the bag of a man from Dublin, New Hampshire, according to a news release from the Transportation Security Administration.

Just a few days after the CDC announced it would investigate nearly 100 cases of severe lung illness linked with vaping, a Weatherford, Texas, teen has come forward with his story of surviving a vaping-related brush with death.

Xavier Soto has been desperately looking for answers since his 23-year-old partner, Jeimily Morales, died last June at a hospital in Puerto Rico, nine days after the pair returned from a vacation to the Dominican Republic. Soto, 27, believes Morales, the mother of a 4-year-old boy, was in good health during their trip in the neighboring Caribbean island. She had...

A Boston veterinary hospital got quite a surprise recently when a family brought in their bulldog after he stopped eating.The Angell Animal Medical Center found 19 baby pacifiers in the dog’s stomach.

Federal officials say a loaded handgun has been confiscated from a passenger at the Burlington International Airport. The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that TSA officers spotted the gun when the Tennessee man’s carry-on bag went through the X-ray machine on Saturday.

Federal officials say a loaded handgun has been confiscated from a passenger at the Burlington International Airport. The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that TSA officers spotted the gun when the Tennessee man’s carry-on bag went through the X-ray machine on Saturday.

The Transportation Security Administration says its officers found a loaded handgun in a North Carolina man’s luggage at Boston’s Logan International Airport over the weekend. The TSA in an emailed statement says the .380 caliber handgun loaded with eight bullets was spotted Sunday when the man’s belongings entered the X-ray machine. He told officials he forgot he had his gun...

Transportation Security Administration officials at Boston’s Logan Airport say two more loaded handguns were found at checkpoints over the weekend. The guns found on Sunday mark the fifth and sixth ones found by officers so far this year. Authorities said an Arizona man was stopped with a 9 mm handgun that was loaded with six bullets and a New Hampshire...

A Massachusetts man was detained at Boston’s Logan Airport Sunday for having a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag. Transportation Security Administration officials said the Weymouth man was carrying a .22 caliber handgun loaded with 10 bullets including one in the chamber when he arrived at the security checkpoint. TSA officers, who spotted the gun in the X-ray machine, contacted...

A Massachusetts man was detained Sunday after TSA officials said he brought a loaded gun to a  security checkpoint at Logan Airport.

An orangutan mother has been blinded after being shot with at least 74 air gun pellets on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, where threats to the endangered species have increased as the palm oil and paper industries shrink its jungle habitat. An X-ray showed at least 74 air gun pellets in her body, including four in her left eye and two in...

Rapper Juelz Santana was sentenced Wednesday to more than two years in prison for trying to bring a loaded gun onto a plane, prosecutors announced.

NASA’s elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope’s demise Tuesday. Already well past its expected lifetime, the 9 1/2-year-old Kepler had been running low on fuel for months. Its ability to point at distant stars and identify possible alien worlds worsened dramatically at the beginning...