Montrell Givens raises his head off a pillow and crawls out from underneath a handmade quilt inside a bare FEMA trailer.
The 17-year-old got home late the night before, slept a bit and sprang up at 3 a.m. to pore over a physics chapter until dawn.
Bleary-eyed, he calls his ride to St. Augustine High School [...]

Tom is a convicted murderer. And a college student. And he’s sitting between two female students from Oregon State University who had never been behind bars until two months ago.
“They were scared to death when they came in,” says Tom, 41, who is among 15 inmates who share a classroom with 15 OSU students for [...]

1685 Composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.
1790 Thomas Jefferson took office as America’s first secretary of state.
1804 The French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was adopted.
1867 Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld was born in Chicago.
1871 Journalist Henry M. Stanley began an expedition to Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone.
1918 Germany [...]