The Handband Blog
Autauga County's 2009 Relay For Life effort has officially beÂgun, and local residents can exÂpect to soon see many and varÂied methods through which funds are solicited for the ongoÂing fight aga…
The fund set up to help the search for Madeleine McCann received almost £2m from well-wishers in the first 10 months after she went missing. Official accounts, made public for the first time, show jus…
Mike Sherwin likes the famous yellow Livestrong bracelet so much, occasionally he wears two. It might also be a gentle reminder to his colleagues at the Lance Armstrong Foundation that initially, he w…
By Joseph Williams, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- Lower 16th Street, near Blair House, resembles a street party. Vendors are selling fried chicken wings, posters, T-shirts, and rubber Obama "Baller bracel…
BEVERLY When 16-year-old Erik West found out he has an extremely rare form of cancer, he wasn't scared, he said. After all, his friend Mike Petrosino survived the exact same thing. "I'm not worried,"…
Starting next month, if you have a seizure requiring emergency treatment, you could be enrolled in a research trial without your permission. While subjects in most medical studies must sign lengthy fo…
FAIRMOUNT Madison-Grant High School students are reaching out to help the family of Courtney Sizelove, who died in August, just before the start of her senior year. Courtney, who was a member of the C…
Pink isn't a color normally associated with the rough and tumble sport of ice hockey. Black and blue is more like it. Yet a feisty bunch of Macomb County peewee hockey players have adopted the color p…
Staff at Marks & Spencers will be doing their bit for the homeless by wearing orange wristbands this Sunday. Workers at the store in the Harlequin centre are joining forces with the Watford New Hope T…
They were expecting to serve 300 at the Pink Ribbon Charity Spaghetti Dinner for Erin Alston Thursday night. They served 550. The outpouring of love and support for the Jefferson High School graduate…
Those who knew and loved Lawson Phillips, a Bayou Meto Elementary School third-grader who died in 2007, honored his life yesterday by making a donation in his name for more than $10,000 to the Make-A-…
For many his name is synonymous with seven yellow jerseys, but to others many, many others Lance Armstrong's greatest achievement is encapsulated in some yellow wristbands, more than 60m yellow wristb…