At the Hyde Park Cafe, a couple of dozen fans, the vast majority men, waited for Dallas Cowboys' wide receiver Terrell Owens to arrive Thursday night. They milled about as Grand Master Flash blasted from the speakers. ...more

January 31, 2009

PUTTING SUPER BOWL INTO PERSPECTIVE Steelers DE Aaron Smith learned three months ago that his 5-year-old son, Elijah, has lymphoblastic leukemia, a form of cancer that attacks the white blood cells. ...more

January 30, 2009

West Virginia coach Bob Huggins tried to downplay how much beating Ohio State meant to him. ...more

December 28, 2008

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shaking hands with yourself is an amusing out-of-body experience. The illusion of having your stomach slashed with a kitchen knife, not so much. Both sensations, however, felt real to most participants in a Swedish science project exploring how people can be tricked into the false perception of owning another body. ...more

December 3, 2008

It took me 12 years of spending money on different knives before I finally found my soul mates and fell into a steady groove with the collection I now own. ...more

November 7, 2008

Marvin Knight doesn't have to look past the customers at his East Tampa fish market to see where President-elect Barack Obama needs to focus his promise of change. ...more

November 6, 2008

Who is Ron Grimming? That was the question Highlands County residents asked, 10 months ago, when they learned that a man who had moved to Lake Placid in 2005 was running for sheriff. ...more

October 17, 2008

The year was 1972, and an ad in Chicago Today ("Wanted: Writers. Flexible hours.") led me to an upper floor of a building on LaSalle Street. I was 21, desperate for a job and wearing the Montgomery Ward suit I'd gotten for graduation. Before long, I was shaking hands with the president of Termpapers Inc., who hired me without bothering to look at the portfolio I brought along. ...more

September 21, 2008

A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial that ended with some of the jurors shaking hands and hugging the defendant and his sobbing mother. ...more

August 29, 2008

He spoke of the promise before he spoke of the dream. ...more

August 28, 2008