Former patrons who wrote off attending another concert or theatrical production at the Toyota Center in Kennewick because they couldn't see, couldn't hear or both will want to give the new arrangement a try.

By the Herald editorial staff

Back in the day, most military deferments were because of flat feet, poor eyesight or some other physical impairment.

By the Herald editorial staff

The gang rape of a teenage girl in Richmond, Calif. -- witnessed by dozens but reported by no one -- gives special urgency to an appeal by a well-known but perhaps tragically underused local agency.

Hospital stays can be scary -- especially for kids.

It is paradoxical that it is relatively rare to find armed personnel on a military base, other than the Military Police.

No one can deny that the recession has hurt businesses and families. Now more than ever, people are taking a critical look at where they spend their money, especially their philanthropic dollars.

By Jim Stoffels, In Focus

During a recent visit to Berlin, I stayed in an apartment overlooking Checkpoint Charlie, the border crossing where Allied and Russian troops grimly faced each other for nearly three decades.

I remember it all so clearly. Twenty-four years ago, I wrote a doctoral exam that asked me to assume "a finality" about the Berlin Wall and the division of Europe. I accepted that premise, because no one familiar with Europe after 1945 foresaw any change there. Just four years later, I watched, slack jawed and speechless, as Champagne-spraying Berliners stormed the Wall checkpoints and threw a reunion party for the ages. Some finality! I was chagrined at having missed so badly on the longevity issue, so I launched a personal research project after the fall in order to get the Wall right. In the spirit of the 20th anniversary of its destruction, here are some of my more intriguing findings.

The Tri-Cities Memorial Committee will conduct its eighth annual Veterans Day celebration at the Regional Veterans Memorial in Columbia Park at 11 a.m. Wednesday.

In 1995, the Academy of Children's Theatre staged its first performance at Chief Joseph Auditorium in Richland. A cast of young actors presented Heidi to sell-out audiences of children, parents, grandparents and teachers - hundreds of Tri-Citians with an interest in children and a love of performing arts.

Today you will meet a domestic violence victim.

Boxing isn't dead and it isn't dying anytime soon. Signs of life were revealed as recently as last weekend, in the 1.25 million pay-per-view buys for the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight.

To grasp Saturday's Big Game mojo between Cal and host Stanford, it's time for our third annual interview with The Stanford Axe, also cleverly known as our "Q & Axe."

If Big 12 football were a Fortune 500 company, it might have qualified for a federal bailout this year.

Apparently, Mark Mangino has made it successfully to Saturday night's game at Texas as the football coach at Kansas.

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