Centennial Elementary fifth-grade teacher Benjamin Donatelli stood quietly as a student shaved his head in front of school staff and students. ...more

December 27, 2009

Regarding your front-page article on new mammogram recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force ("Anger and frustration," Nov. 18): ...more

November 23, 2009

He was her best friend, he was her family. And he never left her side. ...more

November 13, 2009

An average of 17 times a day, I enter an automobile, twist my arthritic hip and stretch my bursitis ridden shoulder to place a safety harness across my med port. The port is plumbed directly into my heart for chemotherapy. My surgeon told me that a medium level impact while wearing my seat belt would probably unplug the port. Death would occur in about three minutes. ...more

August 29, 2009

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told law students today there could be an opening on the Supreme Court soon but didn't hint at who might be leaving. ...more

March 13, 2009

Ken Parks hefted the Craftsman lawn mower onto a table. That's impressive for a 150-pound man who stands 5-foot-4. ...more

March 6, 2009

Sigrid Haseth designs and knits one-of-a-kind hats, scarves, shawls and slippers as gifts for friends and family members. She also creates and donates them to organizations that care for women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. ...more

February 25, 2009

The days of one-size-fits-all cancer treatment are numbered: A rush of new research is pointing the way to tailor chemotherapy and other care to what's written in your tumor's genes. ...more

February 16, 2009

North Carolina State's Kay Yow, the Hall of Fame women's basketball coach who won more than 700 games while earning fans with her decades-long fight against breast cancer, died on Saturday. She was 66. ...more

January 24, 2009

Actor Patrick Swayze has checked himself into the hospital for observation after contracting pneumonia, A&E president Abbe Raven announced at a meeting of the Television Critics Association in Los Angeles on Friday. ...more

January 9, 2009