The spirit and courage never wavered in 15-year-old Jalen Thayer, who passed away Wednesday night from brain cancer after a 21-month struggle that inspired widespread community support. In a turbulent world where acts of terrorism are daily occurrences and attending major league baseball games can result in brain-damaged beatings, the public outpouring of assistance for Jalen -- and his family -- during this period reinforced the goodness and kindness that pervades strongly among so many people on this planet.
DAYTON -- Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Connie S. Price, who has been battling brain cancer for a year, has decided not to run for re-election next year. I'm going to spend time on my health issues," Price said Wednesday. She also said she planned to serve out her term, then work as a visiting judge after she leaves office.
WALNUT - Like any other 4-year-old girl, Jayden Rain Hankins is a social butterfly who is all about tea parties, playing dress up and running around with her puppy, Julia. On Monday this Walnut girl will begin her fourth round of chemotherapy to battle a rare form of brain cancer discovered in October.
MADRID - Seve Ballesteros, a five-time major champion whose passion and gift for imaginative shot-making invigorated European golf and the Ryder Cup, has died from complications of a cancerous brain tumor. He was 54. A statement on Ballesteros' website Saturday said the golf great died peacefully at 2:10 a.m. local time, surrounded by his family at his home in Pedrena, in northern Spain.
It won't get a public hearing until next month, but lobbyists already are working on a bill that would require cell phones sold in Maine to have stickers warning of the possibility of brain cancer. ElectromagneticHealth.org of Boulder, Colo., is backing the bill, which is sponsored by Rep. Andrea Boland, D-Sanford.
Always writing with what she called a "social conscience," Campbell began her career as a novelist on a high mark. Her first piece, "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine," which was an account of a racially motivated killing and an aftermath that spans two generations in the lives of both Blacks and Whites, garnered her the coveted NAACP Image Award in Literature. She went on to pen over 10 books that include New York Times best-sellers "Brothers and Sisters," "Singing in the Comeback Choir" and "What You Owe Me. Hour Hold" is what came out of that experience, for which she said she received the best reviews of her life. "[It] has reenergized me because I'm so passionate about the subject." She added, "Ultimately I want you to come away from the story saying this is a good book and I learned...
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