In the mid-1980s, Barb Smoot taught high school math and physics in West Hartford, Connecticut. Working in the “Insurance Capital of the World” prompted her to take actuarial exams and give the ...

Debbie Penzone grew up in Springfield as part of a big family that loved art, fashion and beauty. As a junior in high school in the 1980s, she gave one of her five brothers a perm so he could feather ...

Amy Klaben’s legacy of service spans decades. When Klaben was in high school, she gained her first board experience as the youth member of the YWCA board of directors in Springfield. “The YWCA’s No. 1 ...

When Angela Plummer graduated from the University of Dayton with a degree in international studies in 1989, she had a grand vision of working for the United Nations to help save the world. It wasn’t ...

Lisa Berger and Ilaria Rawlins had experienced plenty of success in their careers, but a novel idea to start a women-owned bank was an opportunity they couldn’t turn down. Berger and Rawlins met in ...

Lisa Hinson was 12 when she lost her 52-year-old grandmother to cancer. Years later, her father-in-law died from the disease shortly after his retirement. Hinson says they are the inspiration for her ...

As the daughter of an OB-GYN and a medical researcher, Karen Morrison was all but destined for a career in health care. After 30 years with OhioHealth, it’s clear that Morrison has followed in her ...

My heart aches for a world without Pope Francis. His death on April 21 at 88 was inevitable, yet it is still shocking and painful for Catholics everywhere. Francis was the first Latin American pontiff ...

Although I’ve spent most of my life as a lapsed Catholic, and have generally regarded the mother church as a corrupt institution, the selection of Pope Francis was, to me, a bit of a miracle. Pope ...

Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as bird flu spreads across all 50 states, impacting American dairy and poultry farms with dozens of people infected. Here's what to know.

Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies arrested 22-year-old Damien Allen, who they believe was planning a mass shooting. Allen possessed a large arsenal of weapons, ammunition, tactical gear and various ...

Damien Blade Allen, 22, is accused of posing as a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy and engaging in online conversations with a teenager about violence and mass shootings. Allen, who claimed to be a ...