"This shouldn't happen. Not here. Not anywhere," I scribbled in a notebook as I stood outside the Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka on May 20, 1988, struggling to write a column about the ...

The following appeared as a story in a three-part series on the Carter High School 1988 football team in Nov. 11, 2008 editions of The Dallas Morning News. (Original story): Traditionally, the dark ...

Thirty-five years ago this week, I was working at a local bookstore in Winnetka, Illinois, the quiet suburb of Chicago where I grew up. It was a warm, sunny day, a week before my 18th birthday. The ...

A mother’s intuition is unparalleled — just ask Jake Johnson. Johnson, 45, narrowly missed a 1988 school shooting after his mother had a “gut feeling” that she would “never” see him again if she sent ...