Terri Schiavo suffered heart failure in 1990 at the age of 26, lapsing into a persistent vegetative state. Her husband said she told him she would not want to live like that. Her parents felt otherwise. What followed was the nation's most bitter right-to-die dispute, invoking the courts, the president and even the pope. ...more

August 7, 2008

In an ominous sign for drugmakers, the number of prescriptions dispensed by pharmacies in the United States is growing at its worst rate in at least a decade as consumers are squeezed by both a troubled economy and the growing burden of out-of-pocket health care costs. ...more

July 17, 2008

As a kid, Armwood senior basketball star Adam Sollazzo dreamed of playing basketball for Duke University. ...more

May 20, 2008

Evan Locke has been playing basketball for as long as he can remember. "Basketball's got a good flow to it other sports don't have, but it also has a little bit of contact," Locke said. "I love everything about it." ...more

May 10, 2008

A study published last month by a University of Chicago sociologist concluded that senior citizens make for the happiest Americans, with more socially active seniors being the happiest of them. A Highlands Today reporter went out and told several seniors and one recently-retired baby boomer about the study. Then he asked whether they were content with their lives, and what they thought of the study. ...more

May 4, 2008

The owner of a radio station that promoted a rock concert where pyrotechnics ignited a deadly blaze reached a tentative $22 million settlement with survivors and victims' relatives, according to court papers filed Wednesday. ...more

February 14, 2008

Duke University seemed big enough to swallow Grace Jones' daughter whole. It was her only baby's first time away from home. How could she ever leave her in that mass of strangers? ...more

February 10, 2008

painkillers and sedatives - the medical examiner said Wednesday, leading doctors to warn of the dangers of mixing prescription drugs. ...more

February 7, 2008

At age 17, Preston Zimmerman decided to make a leap of faith. He turned down a full soccer scholarship to Duke University and the elite education that came with it and, with the approval of his parents, accepted a contract to play with German Bundesliga giant Hamburg SV. ...more

January 27, 2008

A year is a long time in a child's education, the time it can take to learn cursive writing or beginning algebra. ...more

January 18, 2008