One brother became a bricklayer, the other a novelist of international repute. For decades neither knew of the other’s existence until Ian McEwan met the sibling given away as an illegitimate child at a railway station in 1942.
At their first encounter in a pub near Oxford, his brother’s tale of wartime heartbreak and diverging lives [...]

If you can’t ride ‘em, build ‘em. That’s the philosophy of Al Bergman, a promising mountain biker whose cycling dreams were dashed six years ago when he fell off a cliff during a forest fire-fighting training exercise and broke his back. Since then, the 32-year-old Cobble Hill, B.C., resident, who is now paraplegic, has proved [...]

1967: ‘Boston Strangler’ sentenced to life
The man who claims to be the ‘Boston Strangler’ has been jailed for life after being found guilty of assault and armed robbery against four women in Connecticut.
Albert DeSalvo says he murdered 13 single women in the Boston area between June 1962 and January 1964, creating a climate of fear [...]