TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Quietly over the last decade, phones that make text messaging easy have changed life profoundly for millions of deaf people. Gone are the days of a deaf person driving to someone's house just to see if they are home. Wives text ...

Isn't there anyone who thinks that "packing heat" is the answer to our crime problems in Oakland?

Bright and early on the morning of Oct. 16, Danbury resident Dan George will be jumping through tires, running under police barricades, balancing across concrete barriers, and climbing over taxis.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - When 12-year-old Junior Robinson ambled into D.T.L.A. Bikes, a new cycle shop on Broadway, he seemed taken aback. As he walked down the stairs he stared at the graffiti art on the walls. At the bottom of the steps, he timidly checked out at the slim, bespectacled man bicycling around the shop.

SHAWN GUST/Press Debbie Selander leads her daughters Jessica, 15, and Cadence, 7, up a flight of stairs adjacent to a set of prints that belong to a larger photography exhibit by Ralph Batholdt currently on display at the Coeur d'Alene Public Library.

Giant Lady Godiva puppet to mark 2012 Olympics

POMONA - Tucked away in the basement of Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center is a 1,500-square-foot gym that helps people who have recently suffered heart-related problems as well as those for whom years have passed since a life-changing health scare.

The heat of Colorado summers identifies the abandoned homes in neighborhoods as if giant “Foreclosed” signs had been stuck in the yard. Once lush green lawns are crispy brown, the grass breaking off under your shoes. Flowerbeds are weed infested and bare young trees are dead.

BEVERLY SHORES — A man who uses a wheelchair, and who filed a complaint with the National Park Service over the Indiana Dunes not being accessible enough for people with disabilities, met Friday with the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore superintendent.

It is no secret that the internet can be a hateful place. It's the modern equivalent of the Wild West. There are no rules and a lot of people who feel entitled to judge the smallest actions of fellow skateboarders have forums to do just that. Nonetheless, I was shocked when I stumbled across a message...