She squares a pair of lopsided shoulders, calm under the lights. A sweet grin glows. She gave her best performances here — on this stage — so far.
Six hundred pairs of eyes stare back. On Friday morning, it comes down to votes.
Three years of student council. Four years on the school choir. Four years on [...]

Do you know this man?
He grew up on Cleveland’s East Side in the 1920s, had a mother named Essie, a succession of stepfathers and a little white dog called Skippy.
He went to Central High School, dropping out after 11th grade, loved strawberry ice cream, was a part-time dish washer at a res taurant that ca [...]

Alashia Quick, 29, watched a storm outside her home in Friedberg, Germany, on a Saturday evening in August 2006.
She had been out earlier that day with a friend, but when the sky darkened and wind started blowing, Quick just wanted to get to the home she shared with her husband, Army Sgt. Marquees A. Quick. [...]

1413 England’s King Henry IV died.
1727 Sir Isaac Newton - physicist, mathematician and astronomer - died in London.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris, beginning his Hundred Days rule.
1816 The Supreme Court affirmed its right to review state court decisions.
1828 Playwright Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway.
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel about slavery, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” [...]

A ‘miracle’ drug that can stop people from going blind is available on the NHS in Portsmouth for the first time.
Hundreds of Portsmouth patients with wet Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) can now get sight-saving drug Lucentis at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham.
It is the most common cause of blindness in the western world, but until last [...]