via AP – A West Texas teenager who collected $17,000 in donations after telling people she was dying of leukemia and had only had six months to live faces theft charges after police determined she lied about being sick. Nine months later, Ruth Angelica Gomez, 18, of Horizon City is still very much alive and has Read More

via San Francisco Gate – When Josefina Hernandez, a longtime Walgreens employee with diabetes, felt an attack of hypoglycemia coming on in September 2008, she grabbed a $1.39 bag of chips and ate them to boost her blood sugar, she said. Hernandez said she paid for the chips as soon as she could leave her cashier’s Read More

by Eileen Rivera September 13, 1971 was a day like any other. I was in the second week of eighth grade at Haverstraw Middle School and I just wanted the year to be over so I could hit high school. After school, I changed my clothing, went to the corner bakery for a jelly doughnut, Read More

by Xeno Martinez Its Friday, June 24 and as the rest of New York is laying in wait surrounding the decision regarding gay marriage, I find myself out for a night on the town with my friends in the West Village for pride weekend. As I look around at the crowded bar, I’m awakened from Read More

GAY PRIDE was defined during a time when homosexuality along with other struggles for social acceptance plagued media and the eyes of Americans as a whole. Even now, with the possibility of gay marriage coming closer to a reality I am reminded of the importance of being true to who you are and the recognition Read More