When Gary Skinner's father died in 2005, Skinner was asked by his family to deliver the eulogy. Skinner had spent the previous weeks at his father's bedside in hospice, thinking about the time he'd shared with the man who raised him, an Indiana native Skinner was unabashedly "crazy...

Christina Morris-Ward was 15 when she was struck by a car and killed last October as she crossed an intersection on the way to her Germantown, Md., high school. The driver who hit her had a green light and didn't see Morris-Ward until it was too late. The teen was wearing dark...

Philip Vigil had spent the morning loading large bins full of his daughter's belongings onto a rig for transport to her home overseas. He was on his way back inside his Fort Carson home when he spotted his neighbor struggling to hoist a heavy mechanic's tool box into the back of a...

Nature, it seems, is a fan of Halloween. She litters the ground with appropriately-hued splendor; pops out pumpkins in time for carving; and turns the trees to gnarly skeletons before our very eyes. She is in the spirit long before we slouch in with fake spider webs and...

Once upon a time in the '90s, in a stately neighborhood near The Broadmoor, Sherri Wehrer began growing a fairy tale. First came the chicken wire, yards and yards of it that Wehrer's son affixed to the stucco on each side of the Tudor-style manor. Then, the climbing vines to lace...

At age 53, Susan Grant was at the peak of her career as a financial planner, overseeing $40 million in investment portfolios. Then, for the first time in her life, she started suffering bouts of bronchitis and pneumonia. She also began to notice other changes. Memories that were once...

Vitamins don't go bad but can lose their potency, according to the Mayo Clinic, which recommends expired supplements be tossed. But wait - stay thy hand for a moment. Through Oct. 27, Complete Nutrition will exchange that old bottle of multivitamins - empty or otherwise - for a new...

It was not Chaim Pisher Piddler on the Woof's first trip to Temple Shalom. The Old English sheepdog, a service dog owned by congregant Mic Robertson, celebrated his unofficial "bark mitzvah" at the Colorado Springs synagogue two years ago. "He was about 6 months old; that's about 13...

When Niki Hankins was in Utah giving birth to her first child in 2000, she had one request for hospital staff: ice cream. Blue Bell Ice Cream. A native Texan, Hankins wanted to return home to have her son. Since that wasn't possible, she wanted the next best thing, but the brand was...

Growing up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Grace Hansen never seriously considered putting her life on hold for 18 months to embark on a mission. Though it's a practice fundamentally embraced and encouraged by the Mormon church, for Hansen and many young women...