KRISTIN DICKERSON

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

Soldier is a service dog for a student at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth. This year he is included in the students’ yearbook, and he posed like a pro.

After photographer Clay Hayner adopted Tuco from the Arlington Animal Shelter, the dog has appeared in numerous advertisements and has a large following on Instagram.

For the first time ever, the Keller High School Marching band will be in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and they’ll be the only high school from Texas performing. We meet two of the students going, their friendship started with an act of service.

The Keller High School director of bands, Mark McGahey, talks about why it’s important for his band to welcome students of all abilities.

Drew Bell’s dad, Bryan Bell, talks about spina bifida and the amazing recovery Drew experienced after his first surgery (while still in the womb).

Kim Summons, Keller marching band member Kailey Summons’ mother, shares how Kailey not making Varsity marching band as a freshman was a blessing in disguise.

The Keller High School Director of Bands, Mark McGahey, talks about the band’s upcoming trip to New York City to perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and how it came about.

Natasha Mishkutionok, an 11-year-old ice skater, shares her love of skating and her dream of being better than her mother, Natalia, who is an Olympic gold and silver medalist.

Olympic gold and silver medal ice skater Natalia Mishkutionok talks about why she never thought she was a good skater, and what it’s like coaching in Texas.

A man dressed in all black and wearing a “ballistic vest” fired a Ruger semi-automatic rifle at a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others in the deadliest mass shooting in the state’s history, the governor said. Victims were churchgoers as young as five and as old as 72.

Josiah Arita, a 9-year-old animal lover living in Denton, asked for donations to help homeless pets instead of getting birthday gifts.

After witnessing a tornado cross Highway 64 outside Canton, Brandon Edwards ran to help a man trapped in a Dodge truck that had been thrown 200 yards from the highway.