How does Dorvan Cofield love Diana, his wife? Let him count the ways. ...more

October 24, 2009

On a typical football Sunday at the Breastons' home in North Braddock, Pa., father Michael Breaston cooks the hot wings and the family gathers around the TV set to root for the Steelers. ...more

January 25, 2009

Many people use drugs to escape into the world of pleasure. ...more

December 26, 2008

Randy Nowak's own words will be the most important evidence in his trial on charges he tried to hire a hit man to kill an IRS officer, a federal prosecutor told jurors this morning. Nowak, 49, of Mulberry, is accused of hiring a man he knew as "Reaper" to kill an IRS revenue officer for a total of $20,000 because he was afraid of going to prison for tax evasion. ...more

December 15, 2008

El Capitan Crossings was supposed to be a place where needy families could realize the American dream of home ownership. ...more

November 30, 2008

When Cliff Floyd tweaked his right shoulder diving into second base in the fourth inning of Game 2, he figured the soreness he felt was just another in a string of bumps and bruises all season that would fade away. ...more

October 27, 2008

You remember former Republican Congressman Mark Foley of West Palm Beach, who abruptly resigned after news broke two years ago that he had sent lewd internet messages to boys serving as Congressional pages. ...more

October 22, 2008

What Chris Simms wanted more than anything was to spend his entire career playing for the Bucs. ...more

August 31, 2008

Photography was always just a hobby for Red Slater. The amateur's photographs, though, have appeared in magazines such as Rolling Stone, on television documentaries and in CD anthologies. In 1969 and 1970, Slater shared a dilapidated farmhouse in north Gainesville with Randall Marsh and Mike Campbell, drummer and guitarist with a local band called Mudcrutch. The bassist was Tom Petty. Slater's photographs - some are on display here and at his Web site, www.redslater.com - capture the young band rehearsing, performing and sometimes just goofing off. ...more

July 10, 2008

Throughout the 1940s, our house was mostly quiet in the evening. My family lived in a borough outside of Pittsburgh, and I was a small child. I liked to loll on the window seat and look at picture books. My sleepy-eyed dad would be sprawled on the couch, a magazine open across his chest. Grandma was in the wingchair, working the crossword, and Mother would be in her easy chair. ...more

June 15, 2008