After the BMX cycling competition ended, Jill Kintner lingered, signing T-shirts and taking pictures and playing with the bronze medal hanging from her neck. It was as if she did not want to leave. ...more

August 23, 2008

Even now, Mary Lou Volbert, 65, can't get food off her mind. Knowing she can't eat with abandon, not as she did when she weighed 420 pounds, she transfers her obsession into recording every carbohydrate she consumes from food. Her tallies in a lined notebook are meticulous: ...more

August 17, 2008

Late last month a man who held a high-stress job became the first person in the United States to receive a high-tech implantable heart-assist device that uses technology derived from high-speed trains. ...more

August 13, 2008

Grayston L. Lynch fired the first shot during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. ...more

August 13, 2008

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

Lou Teicher, a famed piano partner with Art Ferrante in a duo that produced and performed enormously popular theatrical recordings of big Hollywood movie themes, has died. He was 83. ...more

August 5, 2008

Nobel laureate Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, the reclusive icon of the Russian intelligentsia and chronicler of Communist repression, died Sunday. He was 89. ...more

August 4, 2008

Larry Harmon, 83, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. ...more

July 4, 2008

The biological mother of an 11-year-old girl who died in foster care is suing the Department of Children & Families and other agencies for negligence, according to a complaint filed Friday in civil court. ...more

July 1, 2008

TAMPA - The biological mother of an 11-year-old girl who died in foster care is suing the Department of Children & Families and other agencies for negligence, according to a complaint filed Friday in civil court. ...more

June 30, 2008