From the first familiar sign of stiffness, Leland Smith knows what's coming. An arm or a leg becomes stiff, then numb.

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Teen with illness raises awareness

His legacy is written in the history books of Drifter lore. Pat Ey played with a special group of athletes that made the transition from independent schools to the Virginia High School League (VHSL).

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An Ey for excellence

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER Associated Press Writer When sports agent Jason Paul Wood met a pair of Miami baseball players in 2006 to talk about turning pro, his failure to notify the university and register with the...

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AP IMPACT: Laws on sports agents rarely enforced

SPRINGVILLE -- Angel Pearce spends a few hours each day perched at her kitchen table amidst paints, wires and swatches of old sweaters.

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Beloved Art City librarian holds on through rare cancer

The report says thousands of textbooks are not bar-coded or returned by students and poor communication between schools has led to unnecessary purchases. An audit of textbooks at 21 local high schools has found that lost books and excessive purchases at these campuses cost the Los Angeles Unified School District nearly $10 million.

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LAUSD lost almost $10 million due to inefficient inventory system, audit finds

Two exhibitions - one focusing on fly fisherman, outdoorsman and Atlantic salmon conservationist Lee Wulff and the other highlighting recent additions to the collections - are currently on view at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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At Beinecke: One Mans Passion; Newest Gems

PRINCETON For the past four years, there have been two constants for the Tigers of Princeton High School Scott Roseberg and Brik Wedekind.

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A rare breed of Tigers

Keeping a used bookstore open these days is getting harder than ever. Broward has fewer than a half-dozen secondhand bookstores still in business and they face an uncertain future. Not only has the Internet stolen potential customers who can buy books at bargain prices online, but also the growing popularity of e-books and digital readers, such as Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook ...

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Used bookstores in Broward offer bargains and more

China threw open the gates of its secretive Central Party School on Wednesday, offering foreign journalists a rare but carefully scripted peek at the leafy campus where the country's Communist elite are trained.

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Communist Party opens door to secretive school

It was trash not treasure. The home-electronics installer accused of pilfering $1 million worth of rare books from a Fifth Avenue mansion owned by the widow of a Vanderbilt heir claimed the precious tomes has been left to rot in the basement. Timothy Smith, 41, faces a felony grand larceny...

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Man accused of stealing $1M in rare books says they were left to rot