“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world ... would do this, it would change the earth.” — William Faulkner Misinformation poses grave threats to democracy and peace and society needs to ...

“The Olympic athletes show the whole world that it is possible to compete with each other, while living peacefully together. In this world of uncertainty that we are living in today, the Olympic Games are even more relevant than ever.” — Thomas Back, International Olympic Committee ...

Two milligrams of fentanyl — the equivalent of about 11 grains of salt — can kill a person, Brian McNeal, spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Detroit Division, told News staff writer Steve Schulwitz for a recent story. And about seven out of every 10 counterfeit ...

With the OIympics here this week, I finally decided it was time to get into shape if I ever held out any hope of being an Olympic athlete. Of course, everyone knows a well-dressed athlete is a successful athlete, so I dug through my wardrobe. I knew the spandex short shorts were around ...

I just came back from a wonderful weekend. My daughter got married. I observed love from a new perspective. As I walked her down the aisle, the groom’s face was alive with emotion. He couldn’t hold back tears of joy. She responded in kind, and all those in the room could feel it. At ...

In an earlier column, I mentioned how I had only ejected one coach ever in a regular-season high school game. Summer ball was a little different. Here is the story of me ejecting a player, followed by the ejection his coach (and also his father) on the same play. Now, this was quite a ...