A 29-year-old homeless hitchhiker is accused of beating an elderly man who gave him a ride from a liquor store before stealing his car. ...more

September 2, 2009

A 12-year-old Polk County girl has been found safe but with a man who police say could be charged. ...more

April 30, 2009

The family clad in Pittsburgh Steelers jerseys watched Nicholas Toth walk by. In his calloused hands, he held a diving helmet he had made from scratch, a 38-pound brass and copper tribute to his grandfather. ...more

February 8, 2009

Evidently, 83-year-old John Anthony Humbach didn't like that his neighbor's security camera was facing his property, so he tried to install a wooden stockade fence to block it. ...more

January 10, 2009

Evidently, 83-year-old John Anthony Humbach didn't like that his neighbor's security camera was facing his property, so he tried to install a wooden stockade fence to block it. ...more

January 9, 2009

It's not clear why the 36-year-old man jumped out of his car and went after the 71-year-old driver on Little Road but the elder man was sent to a hospital and the younger man was sent to jail Sunday morning. ...more

December 10, 2008

It's not clear why the 36-year-old man jumped out of his car and went after the 71-year-old driver on Little Road, but the elder man was sent to a hospital and the younger man was sent to jail Sunday morning. ...more

December 9, 2008

Dear Abby: Please help me. I wasn't sure how to handle an uncomfortable situation last Halloween, and your answer will help me be better prepared this year. ...more

October 26, 2008

These are tough times; about to get tougher. I drove out of town the other day with my old friend and former Tribune history writer Leland Hawes. We were going to a memorial service for Steve Raymond. We had both known him as an editor and friend at the Trib. Raymond was one of the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March at the beginning of World War II, and we were going to his memorial service at the Florida National Cemetery near Bushnell. ...more

September 26, 2008

In September 1932, when I was 5 years old, my father was appointed pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Mooresville, Ind. The parsonage, where my parents and I lived, was one block west of the church. ...more

August 24, 2008