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Police were called to a Michigan grade school after $20,000 in cash was found in a 12-year-old's backpack. The student was passing it out to friends. WDIV's Lauren Podell reports. (NBC News)

An Oklahoma family who adopted a 5-year-old hearing impaired girl from China helped her hear her first sounds following a cochlear implant. KJRH's Casey Roebuck reports. (NBC News)

A 7-year-old girl, who was buckled inside her mother's truck, recounts the terrifying moment she was thrown out of the car during a carjacking at a Texas Wal-Mart. KPRC's Keith Garvin reports. (NBC News)

Officials in Philadelphia are now searching for a woman who walked into a school and kidnapped a 5-year-old girl on Monday morning. On Tuesday morning, a good Samaritan found the girl alone on a playground, wearing only a T-shirt. NBC's Mara Schiavocampo reports. (TODAY)

Inspired by her best friend, whose father was deployed to Afghanistan a year ago, Savannah Maddison Ogden, 11, is making a difference in the lives of soldiers by organizing kids to form a massive letter-writing campaign that has sent thousands of letters to soldiers overseas. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports. (TODAY)

An 11-year-old Florida girl who was accused of being pregnant was actually carrying a 20-pound abdominal tumor. WTLV's Ken Amaro reports. (NBC News)

Four months after being diagnosed with a malignant tumor in her leg, Paishence Joy Watkins, 9, underwent surgery at St. Jude Children's research hospital. Now able to walk again for the first time since April, Watkins tells TODAY's Jenna Bush Hager she can't wait to be "riding my bike again." (TODAY)

"They didn't think she was going to make it," said the mother of Xitclalli "Chilli" Vazquez to TODAY's Lester Holt. Chilli, 9, was injured after a drunk driver slammed into her family's car. A year later, she wrote a letter to the man who left her paralyzed from the chest down. (TODAY)