Knight Ridder Tribune

A few days after an obituary for a teen or young adult appears in the newspaper, the phone will ring at the parents' home. "You don't know me, but I...

It's the perfume that takes 77-year-old Muriel Olsen back on the train ride. A bottle that spilled onto her clothes nearly 60 years ago still lingers in her suitcase today....

For 17 years of her life, from middle school into young adulthood, Province Park lost at least three days a month to an excruciating migraine headache. She visited numerous doctors...

The campaign to put babies to sleep on their backs is now saving thousands of lives a year. But this switch in sleeping position gave rise to another problem: flat...

We're working harder. The competition is fiercer. The pressure to produce is greater. The workdays are longer. Even getting to the job is tougher. Oh, and the company wants you...

Poet Cindra Halm of Minneapolis has been dancing, off and on, since high school. As part of her routine, Halm regularly takes a class devoted to stretching and strengthening. She...

Every day Don O'Brien plunges into some of the worst traffic Seattle has to offer, heading toward the Interstate 90 bridge, expecting an accident to happen. He's often right. People...

Diners are getting an earful as well as a mouthful. Noisy restaurants have become so common that medical experts are taking note. "There definitely are many places I go where...

One by one, the 14 students bow before taking their places on the gymnasium floor. For the next 50 minutes, these 10 young people and four adult "assistants" execute karate...

He was the biker who calmed her tears. She was the little girl who made him cry. Roy Hutchison found Tiffany at a hospital. She had suffered severe brain damage...