New foundation to honor teacher 
BRIEFING: FOLEY, MINN. The family of a Minnesota Teacher of the Year who died in a car crash is establishing a foundation in his name.

Substance in apartment is not mold 
A Toledo-Lucas County health department official said yesterday a substance found in a University of Toledo student’s off-campus apartment was not black mold as was feared.

‘Hill Street’: An Avenue To Quality Storytelling 
Twenty-five years ago this month, “Hill Street Blues” debuted on NBC. It launched a second golden age of television drama: The model it established inspired a long string of literate dramas, including “St. Elsewhere,” “thirtysomething” and “Moonlighting.” Alumni from the show went on to produce…

ONE WORD: PLASTICS 
Stewart drags people in off the street to show them our new insulation. “Touch it,” he’ll say. “Is that not cool?” We went with spray-foam insulation in the newly gutted walls of our East Lakeshore house.

Kruger statue to overlook Grand 
PORTLAND - Verlen Kruger’s love of the Grand River was well known. Kruger - whom a magazine writer once called “arguably the greatest canoeist who ever lived” - paddled every major river in North America and many others as well.

2006 Winter Olympics Preview: Nordic Combined 
(Sports Network) - Exclusively a men’s event, the Nordic combined at the Olympics tests an athlete’s durability and agility, as he uses ski jumping skills, plus the endurance of a cross-country program.