Helena Wegner

The search for a missing 61-year-old woman has come to an end after her body was discovered in Oregon a week after she vanished, deputies said. Susan “Phoenix” Lane-Fournier was found dead Friday, Nov. 29 near U.S. Route 26 and East Miller Road, just south of her Brightwood home, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. Deputies said they also believe they found her two dogs dead the next day. Investigators are working to confirm their identities.

Officers helped a 24-year-old mom in labor deliver a baby on her neighbor’s front porch in Colorado. Then they learned she was having triplets. Police found the woman in pain on a porch as it snowed and rained at about 3:30 a.m. April 18, the Greeley Police Department said in a Facebook post.

Julian Desmarais was at an Oregon beach to spread his dog’s ashes when an unexpected wave came crashing onto the shoreline. That wave threw Desmarais, an Army veteran, off the log he was standing on. The log then crushed him and broke his leg, a TikTok video shows. Desmarais and his friend Emmy Isle went to a beach March 1 near Mo’s Seafood & Chowder in Lincoln City, he told McClatchy News by phone on March 12.

A 37-year-old hiker was last seen asking hunters for help on a remote and rugged New Mexico road, her family said. Now she’s been missing for over three weeks, and her family is asking for help in finding her. Ingrid Coleen Lane of Albuquerque disappeared Oct. 15 from Forest Road 144 in the Jemez Mountains, according to a missing person’s post shared by the Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office on Facebook.

A 35-year-old doctor in training is accused of stealing fentanyl from children at a Washington hospital, federal officials said. Andrew Voegel-Podadera was charged with two counts of acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, deception and subterfuge, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said in a July 1 news release.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota — In two rooms in separate cities, people say their names. Around a circle of chairs and tables, they gather weekly to strategize leaving the streets behind. All have been homeless before or are living on the brink. The conversation is more urgent, as a pandemic winter sets in. And frustration is building with public leaders who they feel have not done enough to help. The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, though similar in many ways, have taken opposite approaches to

Penny Bankhead says a prayer and spends a few minutes centering herself. She sits at her desk in her spare bedroom in northeast Phoenix, powers on her laptop and logs on to Zoom, where she is greeted by a screen full of familiar faces: volunteers in a grief support group. It’s 6:45 p.m. on a Monday; Bankhead is early and prepared. In 15 minutes, the volunteers will leave her screen and their faces will be replaced with the faces of parents mourning the loss of a child.

If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts or a behavioral health crisis, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for support at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Additional resources can be found at the bottom of this article. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Arizonans have turned to call lines for help more often and for new reasons. The virus has caused many to endure financial hardship, job loss, academic stress and some harmful impacts of isolation, which health officials

As temperatures skyrocket, many people experiencing homelessness seek relief from Phoenix's seemingly inescapable heat. Sweltering temperatures are only the latest challenge facing those living on the streets, following the strain of the COVID-19 pandemic as many existing resources have been stripped due to concerns about the spread of the virus. Temperatures were forecasted to reach triple digits of around 115 or higher both Saturday and Sunday. Rocky Farrington and his wife, Juleen Lacrosse

Painting flowers came naturally to Elizabeth Butler, a Phoenix-based artist who has been creating for more than 10 years. Butler learned most of her technical skills at Mesa Community College and then earned a bachelor’s degree in figure painting at Arizona State University. “I started realizing [that] the only time I felt like myself, or that I felt good or OK, was when I was making art,” Butler says. She gravitated toward florals because she says flowers and human beings share the same complex