CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Returning home after three tours of duty in Afghanistan, Derek Blumke was eager to return to college. But the Air Force veteran felt unwelcome at the University of Michigan as he tried alone to manage the transition from warrior to student.- 12:16 AM
YORK, Pa. — It took Diane Pickel Plappert six months to tell a counselor that she had been raped while on duty in Iraq. While time passed, the former Navy nurse disconnected from her children and her life slowly unraveled.- 1:47 AM
RIDGE, Md. — Chesapeake Bay crabber Paul Kellam has advice for the teenage boys who help tend his traps every summer: You better have a backup plan.- 12:15 AM
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — By day, the engineers work on NASA’s new Ares moon rockets. By night, some go undercover to work on a competing design.- 1:49 AM
BERKELEY, Calif. — In the hills above the University of California’s Berkeley campus, nine protesters gathered in front of the home of a toxicology professor, their faces covered with scarves and hoods despite the warm spring weather.- 1:47 AM
TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. — The knock on Brian Hart’s door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.- 12:16 AM
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide.- 12:16 AM
RICHMOND, Va. — With hopscotch speed, Shanawa Littlebow leapt to the side of the road, scooped up a plastic bottle cap and fell back into line with his fellow walkers, passing mobile homes and gas stations along Jefferson-Davis Highway.- 1:45 AM
NEW YORK — Making cannoli is serious business in New York. It’s a dessert so tempting that even a hit man in the “Godfather” couldn’t leave a box behind.- 1:47 AM
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s political success might claim an unintended victim: affirmative action, a much-debated policy he supports.- 12:13 AM
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