Then: Lauren and Greg Manning prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
On September 11, 2001, a fireball engulfed Lauren Manning as she arrived to work at the Twin Towers. Now, after suffering burns to more than 80 percent of her body, and being given a 10 percent chance of survival, Manning is nearing the [...]

THEY had been searching the mountains and forests all morning, acutely aware that time was running out for any survivors of the light aircraft crash.
When the rescuers finally spotted the plane yesterday, its nose buried in snow, hopes of finding anyone alive had all but vanished.
But then a New York State Police sergeant, TJ Corrigan, [...]

In a dramatic sideshow to the Robert Blake murder case two years ago, attorney Gerald Curry was repeatedly shot outside a California courthouse by a man allegedly angry over a probate case. Curry took refuge behind a tree but was seriously wounded.
Today, the attorney has fully recovered from bullet wounds to his neck, arms and [...]

How did a stay-at-home mom start a business that she later sold to Crocs for $10 million? “It was an accident,” says Sheri Schmelzer, 41, of Boulder, Colo.
One day in summer 2005, she decided to use clay and rhinestones to make charms that would fit snugly into the holes of her family’s 10 pairs of [...]

[Times photo: James Borchuck]
“I thought I was in love with her for years,” says Bob O’Malley, 83, as he shares a kiss with his bride, Kitty Burris O’Malley, 80.
They wear bifocals. Their hair is gray. Their bones sometimes creak.
But around their aging fingers, they wear new shiny gold rings, proof of love’s endurance even [...]