The Humane Society reunited a disabled military veteran with his dog Thursday.  The owner said the pet was stolen a few days before.

Retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant Perry Hicks finally exhaled for the first time all week, "I think we were both crying," he laughed.

The staff of the Humane Society looked on as Hicks was hugged and kissed by his pug "Lucky".  Perry said the dog was taken by someone right in front of his Berkeley home January 30, 2012.  February 1, Hicks got the call he needed from Berkeley police.

"All I understand from what Major Edison told me is that they picked him up off the street,'"Hicks explains. "He was just wandering in the street and I guess Animal Control just happened to come by."

Officers showed Hicks a picture of the dog for a positive I.D.

"The easiest way to tell is that broken right front paw that stuck out," Hicks said.  "In the picture you could see it."

The newest additions at the St. Louis Zoo are getting a chance to stretch their legs and enjoy the spring-like weather. The baby animals were all born within the last few weeks.

Families spending the rare warm winter day at the Zoo got to meet a gazelle named Iris.

Also basking in a little sun was baby Studebaker. This Banteng calf is an endangered species native to Asia.

And one of the last babies of 2011 was a mountain Bongo named Tundra. The endangered species that is part of the antelope family.

The Saint Louis Zoo’s Ron Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation and the Missouri Department of Conservation today announced that Ozark hellbenders have been bred in captivity—a first for either of the two subspecies of hellbender.  This decade-long collaboration has yielded 63 baby hellbenders.