A Fox Family Comes to Life On Camera Our morning dog walk changed one February, many years ago. Back then, my wife and I had two German shepherds, both adopted from a rescue group. They suddenly took an intense interest in a storage shed on our property. Circling it so…

In 2013, the year after he and two others were ambushed and shot on a Rochester, New York, street, Kenny Mitchell told an interviewer, “I’m young, and all my friends is incarcerated or dead.” He was 24, one year shy of the age at which “they say” men in his…

Forty years ago this week, I graduated from college. My cousin got his bachelor’s a couple of years before me. So I was No. 2 in our family’s first generation of college grads. If we widen the circle to include my father’s cousins, there probably were a few earlier college…

Some personal news: I’m taking a part-time position with Solutions Journalism Network as a “solutions specialist” — essentially a subject-matter specialist in criminal justice, curating news stories that focus on proven solutions to crime and criminal justice problems. …

We met in second grade and quickly became friends. Bruce’s family lived in the village a little over three miles from my family’s house in the country. By the time we were about 10 years old or so, our parents let us ride our bikes back and forth, on rural…