 Video: Teen choses amputation over pain
 Faced with a choice of living her life in pain or having her leg amputated, 13-year-old Alyssia Crook chose the latter â€" but insisted that the surgery be put off until her team’s basketball season was over. TODAY’s Lester Holt  checks in with Alyssia, who had the surgery and has now set her signs on becoming a competitive swimmer.            (TODAY)
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Video: Dog jumps up with joy
 When Trevor Crowder returned home from a 9-month tour in Afghanistan, the U.S. serviceman’s family lined up to welcome home. The video of one four-legged loved one greet Crowder, a great Dane named Emmitt Thunderpaws, has gone viral. (TODAY)
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Video: Secrets of a foley artist
 Actors get all the credit for the success of motion pictures, but as TODAY’s Amy Robach found out, the people who work behind the scenes creating the sound effects play a major role in making movie magic. (TODAY)
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Video: Saving energy… and golden eagles
 A California man is trying to make sure an important source of alternative energy, windmills, can co-exist with some of this country's most beloved and majestic birds. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports. (Nightly News)
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Video: After being freed, ‘West Memphis 3’ speak out
 Three men convicted of killing three 8-year-old Cub Scouts in 1993 were freed Friday after a judge accepted a plea deal with prosecutors. The men, known as the “West Memphis 3,†speak out at a news conference after the judge’s decision. (NBC News)
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Video: O’Donnell: CNN host asked ‘creepy’ questions
 Former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell tells TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie that she walked out of her interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan because of his “creepy†and “inappropriate†line of questioning. (TODAY)
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Video: Little girl rescued by ‘human chain’
 Thanks to the kindness of strangers, three-year-old Maggie Mullin was rescued from the wreckage after the stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday. NBC’s Kevin Tibbles reports. (Nightly News)
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Video: Obama to Assad: ‘step aside’
 After months of a brutal crackdown, President Obama explicitly called for President Assad to step down, and he described the last several months as "ferocious brutality" against the Syrian people. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports. (Nightly News)
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Video: ‘Skills gap’ hurts employers, job seekers
 Even with millions of Americans out of work, the industrial giant Siemens is having so much trouble finding qualified workers that, for the first time, it's had to hire recruiters. NBC’s Lisa Myers reports. (Nightly News)
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