Jerry Davich

Throughout the year, readers have asked me to write more updates to my columns. Most of those requests involve children with unique challenges. Today's year-end, look-back column includes brief updates...

Christian Picciolini clearly remembers driving into Northwest Indiana to recruit new members for his white supremacy movement. "Hobart, Whiting, Valparaiso, and other towns. There was definitely a presence there then,"...

Alarik "Riky" Howard said barely 15 words when I first met him. The 13-year-old cracked a smiled only once, when asked to do so for a photo. "That's as big...

Joe Mays began sobbing. "I thought everyone forgot about me," he said, burying his face in his hands. For more than 50 years, those large calloused hands hoisted thousands of...

What does the Christmas holiday mean to you this year? I ask "this year" because the meaning of the holiday has changed for me through the years. Possibly it has...

What is the Christmas song that's most annoying to you? Is it, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer?" performed by the husband-and-wife duo of Elmo and Patsy Trigg Shropshire?...