Treat cheerleaders  like athletes they  are, doc group says

Cheerleading isn’t just jumping and waving pompoms — it has become as athletic and potentially as dangerous as a sport and should be designated one to improve safety, the nation’s leading group of pediatricians says. The number of cheerleaders injured each year has climbed dramatically …Read More

• Jaslene Gonzalez wants people to get involved

  Back in 2009, I played the lead girl in the music video “Por un Segundo” by Aventura. To me they’re like the Spanish Beatles — I grew up listening to them; I idolized them. The reason I bring that up is that I recently ran …Read More

• Mariano’s opening Greektown store with luxury atmosphere, high-end goods

  Shoppers at Mariano’s grocery store opening Tuesday in Greektown will get to design their own craft-beer six-pack, slurp down oysters at an oyster bar and take cooking lessons from visiting chefs in the Milwaukee company’s most creative efforts yet to serve the Chicago market.

• Women describe circumstances that led to abortion

  Nearly 1 million women have abortions in the United States each year. What leads them to that choice?