ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — For many kids who grow up in foster care, the odds are stacked against them. But one teenager in St. Pete is defeating all of them. Part of the program is a 60-day sailing ...

Your typical county bureaucrat probably won’t be remembered for his ability to don a sheep costume and sing a parody song to a room full of his colleagues. But to those who knew him, Walt Ekard wasn’t ...

Ian Lipkin, an experimental pathologist at Columbia University, is today most famous for discovering more than 2,000 viruses, which earned him the moniker “virus hunter,” over a decades-long career in ...