“It can be devastating to people when they know that there's nothing that they can do,” said Crystal of her mother's cancer and of her own. Crystal was only 18 when her mother, Phyllis Gilver, died of stomach cancer on Mother's Day 1982. In April ...

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 Community Calendar MEETINGS Daughters of Norway Thelma Lodge No. 26: 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul’s Church, 2005 Colby, Everett. A program on fjord horses will be presented by Corrine Logan from Willows Edge ...

On Thursday night, the funeral home became a crime scene when a 34-year-old woman was shot and killed while stepping outside of a viewing for her boyfriend -- a 51-year-old man who had been shot and killed a week earlier. Standing just beyond the ...

A fourth-generation mortician, he directs the largest funeral facility in Baltimore and handles services for at least two or three city homicide victims per month. Families of victims gunned down in the streets go to his West Baltimore business to ...

Cormac McCarthy, above in 2007, drew on his own relationship with his son for his novel 'The Road.' Novelist Cormac McCarthy shuns interviews, but he relishes conversation. Last week, the author sat down on the leafy patio of the Menger Hotel, built ...

Staff photo by COREY PERRINE Jack Law, of Hollis, kisses his wife Lori while Lisa Law, of Nashu,a and Everett Law, 15, of Holli,s look on after Jack was awarded the Nashua Chamber of Commerce's Citizen of the Year Wednesday night at the Crown Plaza ...

Everett Dirksen’s hometown still carries a reputation ... National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s 100th anniversary banquet at the Par-A-Dice Hotel & Casino in East Peoria, Dunn spoke of the importance of the Dirksen’s mid ...

GRANITE FALLS, Wash. - Granite Falls residents are suspicious of any newcomers, let alone a Muslim native of Pakistan who moved to this rugged, blue-collar logging and mining town to open his own bar. But 54-year-old Haroon Saleem has thrived ...

Like friendly neighbours who've lived beside each other for years, B.C.ers and Washingtonians tend to take one another for granted. We cross the 49th for cheap gas and factory outlet shopathons; they head north for cheap trips and resort property ...

Parker wants to turn the Silverdome into a multiuse entertainment destination, with a hotel, equine research facility, a thoroughbred horse racetrack and a casino with slot ... to look into this," City Councilman Everett Seay said. "The citizens of ...