SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Ethan Dean was living his dream on Tuesday. The six-year-old has a garbage truck bedspread and pillow. He has garbage truck toys. He’s had a garbage truck birthday party. Now ...

ASHLAND, Mass. - A Massachusetts boy fulfilled his wish to be a sanitation worker for a day. Four-year-old Alan from Ashland, who suffers from a respiratory disorder, dressed up as a garbage ...

If you ask a kid what they want to do for their birthday, there’s a chance that they’ll come up with something that is pretty imaginative and out-of-the-box. After all, what child wouldn’t want a ...

Catherine Carrigan’s son had to give his favorite garbageman a proper send-off Ever since Catherine Carrigan's son Noah was 5, he was interested in garbage trucks and would wait for the garbageman.

When a toddler’s birthday wish is to see the garbage truck, it’s easy to dismiss it as just another sweet whim of childhood. But as one viral TikTok shows, this simple request carries profound lessons ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo's Department of Public Works commissioner on Saturday confirmed Saturday that a garbage truck driver with a suspended license hit and critically injured a teenage boy. In a ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KNBN) -Friday may be the best day of the week for a boy in South Dakota. That’s because it’s trash day in his neighborhood in Rapid City. Every Friday, Maddox Reed waits in the ...

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