By Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun Mar. 4--Jessica Lange recently became an empty-nester. She insists she is not handling it well.

By Laurie Goering, Chicago Tribune Jul. 29--After three years of caring for his increasingly frail mother and father in their Florida retirement home, Steve Herzfeld was exhausted and faced with spending his family's last resources to put the couple in a cheap nursing home.

By WAYNE PARRY ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Some of the letters are comical (a man asking God to let him win the lottery, twice), others are heartbreaking (a distraught teen asking forgiveness for an abortion, an unwed mother pleading with God to make the baby's father marry her).

By Lori Becker, The Palm Beach Post, Fla. Feb. 26--After helping three condominium associations get federal disaster loans following the back-to-back blows of Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne, Jon Commander isn't seeking the aid again despite another whack from Wilma's winds.

By Jodi S. Cohen, Chicago Tribune Jan. 26--University of Chicago announced Wednesday the largest gift in its history--a $42 million donation to help expand the children's hospital.