With sauna-like summer days lingering on, people might not be focused yet on the fall flu season. ...more

September 28, 2008

With sauna-like summer days lingering on, people might not be focused yet on the fall flu season. ...more

September 13, 2008

There are few schools that enter the field like the Gaither Cowboys. Players walk through a makeshift blue barn surrounded by smoke as the theme from "The Magnificent Seven" blares in the background. It sets the tone for one of the more unique high school football atmospheres. ...more

September 4, 2008

So this is what it looks like when the maverick becomes The Man. Sen. John McCain was sitting in the front of his fancy-pants front-runner's plane, trying to get comfortable. He fidgeted, occasionally lapsing into un-McCainlike blandness: "There is a process in place that will formalize the methodology," he said in describing how his free-form campaign style will assume the discipline expected of a probable Republican standard-bearer. ...more

February 17, 2008

During practice runs such as these, music blares through the loudspeakers as dozens of riders of varying ages and sizes climb to the starting gate. ...more

January 17, 2008

The Capital One Bowl marked the end of an era at Michigan as Lloyd Carr retired after a 13-season career as coach, paving the way for Rich Rodriguez to lead college football's winningest team as the first "non-Michigan man" since Bo Schembechler in 1969. Carr granted Associated Press writer Larry Lage behind-the-scenes access for his final two-plus days in charge, allowing a reporter in a Michigan locker room before a game and at halftime for the first time in at least four decades. ...more

January 3, 2008

The kindergartners' lunchroom chatter comes to a halt as a New Age music track blares over the loudspeakers. ...more

September 16, 2007