The annual Winter Carnival in Acton, Mass., was canceled — by an excess of winter.

A buildup of snow around the North Acton Recreation Area, where the yearly event takes place, made it impossible for organizers to prepare the grounds.

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Do-gooders raised their cholesterol counts, then some money, for a North Carolina hospital.

Runners chowed down on a dozen doughnuts and then, powered by the sugar high, ran two miles, raising $40,000 for North Carolina Children’s Hospital at Chapel Hill over the weekend.

The annual Krispy Kreme Challenge has been going in sweet, glazed circles now since 2004.

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Ohio cops are looking to make a cardiac arrest of the thief who swiped an artificial heart.

The prized $20,000 pump and $10,000 worth of additional parts were stolen from Perfusion Solution, Inc., in Beachwood, Ohio, last month.

Cops and the company have no idea who the no-longer-heartless thief could be.

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Neither rain nor sleet could stop Milwaukee postal clerk Richard Doherty from doing his job.

Doherty got up at 3 a.m. one day last week, saw his car was snowed in by a massive blizzard, donned ski goggles and trekked four miles to open his office on time at 6 a.m.

He braved 50-mph winds and 18 inches of snow.

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Neighbors in Livingston, Mont., got into a dog fight over a pooch’s snack.

Cops arrested a dog owner who allegedly roughed up his neighbor after the victim gave a biscuit treat to the suspect’s canine.

The hot-headed dog owner believed his neighbor was trying to poison the pooch, but that wasn’t the case, cops said.