College of the Holy Cross

Although Michelle Zimmerman serves as captain of Tolland High School's tennis team, her favorite playing partners aren't her teammates. She and a friend started "ACE Tennis," a program for special needs students. Community service is one of Zimmerman's...

Florida junior Mike Zunino was named to the watch list for the Johnny Bench Award, which is is given to the nation's top catcher. Zunino was a finalist for the award last season after taking SEC Player of the Year honors. He continues to lead top-ranked...

"A Good American" by Alex George, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 400 pages, $25.95. James Meisenheimer narrates this novel about his grandparents' coming to America in 1904. Henriette Furst, known as Jette, meets Frederick Meisenheimer. Frederick, an orphan...

Dr. Edward Michael Barczak, a retired Baltimore obstetrician-gynecologist who delivered thousands of babies during his 40-year career, died Tuesday of cancer at his Timonium home. He was 85. The son of a Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. worker and a...

BASKETBALL LEGEND: The Knicks participated in a special lottery where they nearly drafted Bob Cousy! STATUS: True. Fans of the NBA are quite familiar with the story of the first NBA draft lottery, which was also one of the greatest......

A woman holding a martini turns to a garishly dressed man in a bar and says, "I thought I'd never laugh again. Then I saw your jacket." Through that cartoon — the first published by the New Yorker in the grim weeks after the 9/11 terrorist...

As summer winds down, another new school year brings fresh notebooks, sharp pencils and — for many kids — a new cycle of sleep deprivation. With classes that start as early as 7 a.m. and buses that pull up long before sunrise, some 80% of...

Marilyn French, a writer and feminist scholar whose provocative 1977 novel "The Women's Room" captured the frustration and fury of a generation of women fed up with society's traditional conceptions of their roles, died Saturday at a hospital in New...