Top 5 Stories June 13, 2025

Our top 5 stories for Friday June 13, 2025. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome to West Michigan's morning News. Steve Kelly, Brett Mekita.
That is Adam Roach Show, Tony Brookson for Brett Today.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It is Friday.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
I believe it is the thirteenth of June and that
means top five times Schmidty, where does it start?

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Number five? Have you seen the picture?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
It is?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Wild Tree Tops Resort in northern Michigan said this right
here is why we take weather very seriously after they
posted an unbelievable shot of where lightning struck the green
on their golf course. In the post, they say a
strike at the eleventh fairway of the Smith Tradition golf
course and literally left a scar. Pictures show black stretches

(00:42):
that literally look like bolts of lightning burned into the grass,
emanating from the point of impact. It's a really cool photo,
but at the same time proves mother Nature is wild. However,
good news. They say lightning can release nitrogen into the soil,
which is actually very good for the grass. That's why
the grass always looks greener the day after a storm.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Interesting enough fertilizing tips from treetops. Besides, the good Lord
would never terrupt the best golf game of my life.
So Caddyshack is playing out like a documentary.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Number four in.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
The list, authorities in a South Carolina coastal town surprised
to discover a shelled creature found wandering through a neighborhood
that was non native to this tortoise aha. The Surfside
Beach Department said the animal found wandering in the area
of Thirteenth Avenue and Ocean Boulevard wasn't a sea turtle
that wandered out of the water, but rather an escaped

(01:37):
pet tortoise look out. Upon collaboration with DNA and other
wildlife experts, I'm sorry DNR. They didn't take its DNA.
It's like a Supreme Court issue. Wildlife experts said that
it's been determined it's most likely a pet. Post was
later updated to report the owner and the reptile have
been reunited.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Good to know at number three this morning.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
You know, a no hitter in baseball is something very
few pitchers ever get to experience in their lifetime.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
So imagine you're a rookie.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's your major league debut, your first game ever in
the majors, it's the sixth inning, and so far you're
pitching a no hitter. You don't even want to think
about those two words. You certainly don't want to say
them out loud. That's bad luck, right, Well, so is
injuring yourself just four pitches into the sixth inning. That's
exactly what happened last night to Milwaukee Brewer's pitcher Jacob Mizziorowski.

(02:29):
On that fourth pitch in the sixth inning, his foot
landed a little bit awkward. His right calf and quadriceps
were cramping. He was forced to leave the game in
the middle of a no hitter.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
And for the.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Record, only one pitcher has ever thrown a no hitter
in his major league debut. It happened way back in
eighteen ninety two.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
So close, yet so far takes you back at number two.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
A bipartisan group of Ohio lawmakers are moving to bring
back the Presidential fitness test to elementary, middle school, and
high school students.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Did you have to take that? We did?

Speaker 5 (03:02):
It got eliminated in twenty twelve, and so every student
in school right now has never had to take this thing.
It's sit ups, push ups, pull ups, and the mile run. Yes,
the little Husky Adam had to dake the Presidential fitness
test and I did not do it.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I loved it. Killed the presidential fitness tests. Yeah, we
had to climb the rope.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
We just moved my mom to Grand Rapids in December,
and I finally got rid of those certificates.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
They were like little metals. Yeah, that's hung them here.
Why do we still have these?

Speaker 5 (03:36):
What?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
That's crazy? And I was anxious. I remember that. It
was like everybody got a little freaked out about it. Yeh.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Finally, in speaking of school, at number one on the list,
students in an Oregon middle school used recycled materials to
design and build a prototype prosthetic for a dog with
a spinal injury.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I love this idea because it can help us understand
the world a little bit better, and it can also
help us, like try to solve big real world issues.
What a sweet kid, and what a cool idea.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Seventh graders at Valley Catholic Middle School in Beaverton were
challenged to create a prosthetic for Ember, a sixteen week
old labrid doodle whose back legs were paralyzed because of
his spinal injury. It was a final exam for a
STEM program and they finished it just before they got
out of school and made their recommendations with this prototype.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
That's cute.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Thank you all for being a part of the day today.
Now pick out an outfit and go and conquer it.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
That's today's Top five