D.O.N. Returns

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Day Old News! I'm back and before I kick off this day with all your favorite pics, gossip, and a brand new poll, here's a story that warmed my ice cold heart on a Monday morning. Hang in there, it'll be 5 o'clock soon!

Six days after a small plane crash that killed two members of a family four, the family's missing dog was found alive by the same pair of teenage brothers who first helped the survivors.
Family friends had been searching for Lindsey, a 9-year-old Dalmation who had been on the plane but was not found at the crash site.

"We were called loonies," said Bob Jansen, who along with his wife Shirley had spent much of the week looking for Lindsey. "They told us we were searching for a dead dog."

Rene Herrera, 17, and his brother Edgar Herrera, 15, had returned to the scene 35 miles north of Los Angeles Friday to show friends the place where they had pulled Robert Santoro, 43, and his 7-year-old son Dawson away from the flaming plane on July 1. The brothers and their friends saw Lindsey in a ditch.

"We all started running towards the dog," Rene Herrera said. "We all took turns cradling it like a baby and we took it home."

The dog had a ruptured diaphragm and a broken leg, and underwent surgery at a Santa Barbara animal hospital Saturday, Jansen said.

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