The death of 17-year-old Ozzie Vargas Jr. while on a church youth retreat at a camp in North Carolina in September shined a spotlight on
The scoreboard didn’t tell the whole story Sept. 15 in Satsuma. The visiting Daphne Trojans hung 45 heavy points on the home team, keeping hope
Sherry Simpler remembers the days when holding En Fuego meant handing out hot dogs to 300 people and watching a local band perform on the
About four years ago, James Mathews volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), a nonprofit, secular organization that matches adults with children in need of
More than 500 fourth- through eighth-graders from five states converged at Judson College in Marion this summer for two five-day sessions of Crosspoint sports camps
When Jen Thompson looks at family pictures, the memories are still painful. Her parents divorced when she was 14, and along with the sense of
When violent thunderstorms and straight-line winds battered south-central Illinois July 21, residents weren’t able to estimate the untold millions in losses or guess when their
Today’s promising young people are becoming tomorrow’s local headlines, according to Alabama Citizens Action Program (ALCAP) officials. That’s the reason behind ALCAP’s newest educational module
