Alma Bachman, left, joins Bess Higgins, a resident of Concordia Haven retirement apartments in Cabot, as she celebrates her 102nd birthday last week at the Concordia com...
Thomas Brown of Valencia admires the giant model train layout in his home.
The winter scene, 8 feet wide and 23 feet long, took Brown two years to build.
Brown holds ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - About a year ago, Dave Champlin and his two roommates lived in what their friends at the University of Missouri called the House of Fat.
At a combined...
NEW HOPE, Pa. - You stroll down the sidewalk, step around trash cans, file past planters and maneuver along without much concern.
Take the same trip in a wheelchair and ...
Animal visits to sick in hospital brings hugs
LOS ANGELES - One of the angels that 9-year-old Cory Callison eagerly awaits each day wags a tail.
"Angel!" Cory shouts as...
WESTERVILLE, Ohio - In a survey of religion reporters in secular media, Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" and religious issues in the presidential campaign ...
Holidays seen as opportunity to reach out
BOSTON - To describe his feelings at the pulpit during a jam-packed Christmas worship service, the Rev. Paul McPheeters talks "M...
- Martha worked for six years for Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh when there was only one Mellon Bank.
As a child, Martha remembers pushing her sister in a wicker buggy while ...
'Some assembly required' troubles most shoppers
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Some assembly required.
It's the consumer's lament, the do-it-yourselfer's Everest, the bane of parents...
Services can help healing
ZELIENOPLE - Sleigh bells ring, snow glistens and Christmas is still Christmas, but for those who have lost a loved one in the past year, the ho...
