Leo Rodgers is the irrepressible gravel-racing hero we all need now.

How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.

Two 16-year-olds form a suicide pact, driving a Pontiac off a cliff. One of the boys survives:

To many of the people in Fillmore who considered the incident a cause for civic mourning and self-scrutiny, the idea of trying Joe for murdering his best friend seemed outlandish. To a prosecutor, however, the indictment had its own logic. The Ventura County district attorney, Michael Bradbury, was an aggressive law-and-order man, and he had a potentially strong case. With Joe's repeated announcements of his plan to drive off the cliff, the crucial element of premeditation was undeniably present.

Is a serial killer on the loose in Wellfleet? An investigation.

The NFL is doing everything it can to avoid paying former players who have dementia.

In 1982, a family disappeared from their Los Angeles home. A writer and former neighbor is still trying to put the pieces together.

Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty.

Courtroom testimony about dogs detecting dead bodies keeps sending people to prison—even without physical evidence. Critics say the science is lacking.

Fourteen other tornadoes hit Georgia on April 27 and 28. This was not the record — that would be twenty, during Tropical Storm Alberto in 1994. But it was one of the worst twenty-four-hour periods in the history of the state. Tornadoes hit Trenton, Cherokee Valley, south of LaGrange, and Covington; killed seven people in a neighborhood in Catoosa County, swept through Ringgold, and killed two more — a disabled man and his caregiver — in a double-wide trailer on the far end of Spalding County. Those tornadoes got all the attention. The Vaughn tornado didn’t even warrant an article in a major newspaper. No one talked about Vaughn. The only way for a person to really find out about it was to drive past.

In 1960, beer heir Adolph Coors III was kidnapped and murdered. A look back at the crime and the man who committed it.

From Hong Kong to Bangkok to the Golden Triangle, the author searches for something everyone says no longer exists: an opium den.

The film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists.

The executive and investor resigned from his position as Tronc chairman hours before the news.

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

How Goldman Sachs made $5 billion by controlling supply and manipulating the aluminum market.

Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.

What happened when Pakistan shut down the vitally important Karachi to Kabul trucking line.

What happens when a complete stranger becomes convinced you’re the Zodiac killer.

Jason Matthews worked at the CIA for more than 30 years. Then he started writing spy novels.

He covered car accidents for a years as a journalist. Then he was in two himself.

One reason the Tea Party's patriotic political statements are so taupe is that they mirror the religious rhetoric, which is high on generalizations about God and low on nuance and complexity and conflict. Go ahead, replace "constitution" and "patriotism" with "God" and "faith" in some tea party speech sometime—it's not as wacky as it should be.

On the O.J. Simpson verdict and the Million Man March.

On the “Pacification Process,” or how we ended up in the least violent moment in our species’ existence.

A Native American family’s fight for housing security in the city and on the reservation.

Modern methods allow the Islamic State to keep up its systematic rape of captives under medieval codes.