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Byline: Arian Campo-Flores As he prepared for a high-stakes audition, bass player Matthew Way yearned for some guidance. But his old teacher Timothy Cobb, of the Metropolitan Opera, was in [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores, With Richard Wolffe Manuel Ortega didn't like what he was hearing. Though the Mexican native has been a legal permanent resident in the United States for 15 [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Amid the polarization over illegal immigration, a new Web site aims to bring some harmony: Mexicans & Americans Thinking Together, or MATT.org. Launched on Cinco de Mayo, [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Hardy Fowler is not one to waver. The managing partner of KPMG's New Orleans office, he's accustomed to the business world's demands for decisiveness. But when it […]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Evan Thomas (With Mark Hosenball) Rush was on a roll. He made fun of polling showing that Hillary Clinton has a higher rating when she uses […]

Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores As the methamphetamine epidemic continues to ravage the country, some states are responding with a new innovation: 'meth prisons' dedicated exclusively to inmates addicted [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores (With Holly Bailey, Daren Briscoe, Eleanor Clift, Jennifer Ordoñez, Catharine Skipp and Jamie Reno) Irma Palacios carries a faint remnant of her days as an undocumented fruit [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores When 'Jane' discovered a few weeks ago that she was pregnant, she nearly collapsed. She already has four kids, ages 6 to 18, to raise on her [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores (With Richard Wolffe, Mark Hosenball and Sarah Childress) In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, Houston earned a loving moniker among many of the evacuees who sought refuge [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Frederick Burger Alvin Lawley was awakened by a panicked call to his home in rural Bibb County, Ala. Nearby Ashby Baptist Church was burning, said the [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Peggy Wilson couldn't believe what she was hearing on the radio. Addressing a crowd on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mayor Ray Nagin was claiming that God [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores (With Sarah Childress) It was shaping up to be a perfect honeymoon for George Smith and Jennifer Hagel Smith. Touring the Mediterranean aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise [...]

Byline: Pat Wingert and Arian Campo-Flores (With Steve Tuttle and Daren Briscoe in Washington) Marshall Winans had always yearned to follow in his father's footsteps and work in the coal [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores By Christmas day, Jeff Reardon was a physical and emotional wreck. The former star relief pitcher was struggling through a second holiday season without his son Shane, [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Joseph Canizaro was just putting the finishing touches on his new mansion west of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck. More than four years in the making, [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Mark Hosenball (With Catharine Skipp and Prakash Gandhi) When Rigoberto Alpizar visited his family in Rio Claro, Costa Rica, in July, he grew alarmed at his [...]

Thousands of Hispanics, both legal residents from other states and freshly arrived illegal immigrants from south of the border, have rushed to New Orleans to take construction jobs and are likely to fundamentally remake the city's demographic and cultural landscape. According to the 2000 Census, before Katrina only 3% of New Orleanians were Hispanic and 67 percent African-American, however, after evacuation, many AfricanAmericans may have left for good.

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores (With T. Trent Gegax) Only one day after Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast, Tranquilino Jimenez already had a job offer. An undocumented immigrant from Mexico, [...]

Rise in serious injuries amongst cheerleaders raises concerns especially after the death of a 14-year old Ashley Burns. Parents are lobbying for greater regulation but the problem arises when the federation cannot force states to abide by the rules because some states classify cheerleading as a sport, triggering strict requirements such as access to an athletic trainer, and other states treat it as a more loosely governed activity.

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores (With Ben Whitford and Jessica Silver-Greenberg) It was a dream come true for Ashley Burns when the lithe 14-year-old with the blue-ribboned ponytail and squeaky voice learned [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores When Bishop Gilbert Patterson began his sermon at the Temple of Deliverance church in Memphis one recent Sunday, his voice started off soft and velvety. He compared [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Few things unsettle parents as much as the prospect of a sex offender living in their midst. Now there's a new way to find out: mapsexoffenders.com. Launched [...]

Byline: Prakash Gandhi, William Lee Adams and Arian Campo-Flores Four years after a spate of shark attacks prompted a media frenzy, is another 'summer of the shark' about to break [...]

Byline: Karen Breslau, Sean Smith, Jennifer Ordonez, Charles Gasparino, Arian Campo-Flores, Keith Naughton, Brad Stone, Martha Brant, Karen Breslau PIERRE OMIDYAR There's a reason Silicon Valley was known during its [...]

An account of how Jennifer Carol Wilbanks, who vanished on the eve of her wedding, made up a false story of getting kidnapped is discussed. The Duluth Police Department had to shell out around $60,000 to deploy 60 officers, who were involved in tracing Jennifer Carol Wilbanks and the officials are deciding what restitution to seek and whether to file charges against Wilbanks.

The highly contagious Marburg virus, which causes victims to bleed out of their eyes, genitals and other orifices, has killed 239 people out of 266 reported cases. In response, medical teams from across the world are trying to contain the epidemic, but are confronted by clinical and cultural obstacles.

Byline: Jill Jordan Sieder and Arian Campo-Flores It was an error with potentially devastating consequences. Last September, Meridian Bioscience, a medical company, began sending out more than 3,700 virus-test kits [...]

Byline: Jill Jordan Sieder and Arian Campo-Flores The woman lay dead last week in a small mud hut in rural Angola, a trickle of crusted blood snaking from her nostril. [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Five years ago, Esperanza Hincapie had sunk into a pit of despondency. With a daughter in prison for murder, she contemplated swallowing a mouthful of pills to [...]

Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores To the long list of creative ways to ingest alcohol--beer bongs, belly shots--now add this one: inhaling. Spirit Partners has introduced the AWOL (Alcohol [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Tony Taylor can't seem to get enough of Buenos Aires. He just returned from a trip there in January and already has another--his fifth since 2001--planned for [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores When Tom Castro and some partners bought their first Spanish-language radio station in 1979, the sellers were unloading what they thought was a dying business. Some death. [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores If Sen. John Kerry winds up winning Florida in November, he can thank people like Marta Torres. A former tomato picker from Mexico who once had no [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Daren Briscoe It was billed as a private meeting for frank talk. Early this month in Philadelphia, Sen. John Kerry sat down with black clergy from [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores After a long, lethal rampage through the Caribbean, Hurricane Ivan unleashed its wrath on the Southeast last week. Hitting land near Gulf Shores, Ala., it drilled into [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Take one look at the Pershing 50 and you'll immediately understand why it was named after a missile. It's silver and sleek, and looks as if it's [...]

Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores Ever worry that your teenager is a wild driver? TIP SHEET tested three new devices that let you spy on your kid's conduct behind [...]

The Democrats are taking the U.S. presidential election very seriously as allegations and counter allegations are traded around the party members. Political observers expect that the internal bickering will last till July 2004 when the democratEs convention in Boston will take place.

Byline: Lynn Waddell and Arian Campo-Flores Confirming that things never get any weirder than in Florida, now there's Natura, believed to be the nation's first officially Christian nudist resort. The [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores For Armando Gutierrez, a Democratic consultant on Latino issues, President George W. Bush's immigration proposal last week signaled the opening salvo in the battle for Hispanic votes. [...]

Byline: Catherine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores Almost three years after he became the youngest person sentenced to life in prison (at 14), Lionel Tate won a new trial last week. [...]

Byline: Peter Hawkins and Arian Campo-Flores For Kosher-observant Jews, cruises have been cause for kvetching. All those lavish buffets violate kosher dietary laws, leaving the devout to nosh on frozen [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores The initiation began with a ritual beating. On a hot summer day in 1999, in the wooded area of a Charlotte, N.C., park, some 70 gang members [...]