While posted up at a Starbucks, editing another story on deadline, I noticed a handmade sign over a window table across the room. A hearing-impaired man was offering tax services. I went over, introduced myself, and discovered the power of this tight-knit community. Gary Jacobson is passionate about helping Read more
Cathy Harvey is a single mom raising three sons with special needs. They each have Cerebral Palsy, autism, and attention deficit disorder. During the week, Harvey is up before the sun to get her boys ready for school. Patricia Nazario stopped by their San Fernando Valley home to see the Read more
In the Los Angeles Unified School District, the approach to special education is two-fold: Provide support and services and mix disabled children with the rest of the students. Cathy Harvey is a single mom who’s counting on the system to help prepare her three special-needs sons for life in the Read more
Temper tantrums, intense therapy sessions and expensive prescription medications are among the challenges that confront parents with special-needs children. To handle it all, a single mom raising three disabled boys in the San Fernando Valley has tapped several resources. Patricia Nazario explains how she doesn’t spend a red cent of Read more
Patricia Nazario remembers Edna Cintron, one of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, in a tribute to her life and the family she left behind. Visitors can leave message for her loved ones on an online tribute to Edna Cintron. Read more
Patricia Nazario reports from Florida’s Space Coast as Hurricane Irene churns up the state in October 1999. After crossing western Cuba, Irene struck the Keys and South Florida, where flooding caused an estimated $600 million in damage and eight people died in the storm’s aftermath.
Patricia Nazario reports from Orlando International Airport as about three dozen first responders run a full-scale disaster drill simulating the crash of a Boeing 757 with 120 people on board. Volunteers in makeup play the wounded as crews practice rescue and triage.