Megan Biretz, 17, never had an easy life. Her single mom struggled to support her while battling cervical cancer, then complications. Family demons - alcoholism, drugs and mental illness - hovered over the household with three adults and one child. Then, in two short days in early March, even that precarious family life vanished. ...more

March 29, 2009

Megan Biretz, 17, never had an easy life. Her single mom struggled to support her while battling cervical cancer, then complications. Family demons — alcoholism, drugs and mental illness — hovered over the household with three adults and one child. Then, in two short days in early March, even that precarious family life vanished. ...more

March 27, 2009

Local NAACP leaders strive to find new ways to make the organization relevant for young people today. ...more

February 8, 2009

"Tell me how this ends," Army Gen. David Petraeus once asked a reporter. At the time, the U.S. military effort in Iraq was mired in futility. Today, he has his answer. The Iraqi Cabinet has approved a proposed security agreement that calls for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops by the end of 2011. Most Americans would say it's about time. ...more

November 24, 2008

They could compete for strangest bedfellows of 2008. Rudy Giuliani is a supporter of gay and abortion rights who is building his Republican primary campaign around his response to the Sept. 11 attacks. ...more

November 8, 2007

Olympic sprinter Marion Jones titled her 2004 autobiography 'Marion Jones: Life in the Fast Lane.' ...more

October 10, 2007