We got donations from citizens all over who would send a letter expressing their desire to help and a check or a couple dollars in an envelope.

I don't think there's a single county agency that doesn't have something aimed at people who speak a language other than English. Each department has its own multilingual staff.

We've had donations from a local law firm, a crime solvers' group in Wisconsin, a couple from Virginia and a businessman in California, giving from $100 to $50,000.

It's probably the worst street in the city. Right now, we're working on some grant money to help fund this project.

Several of the players have sought out additional help in the off-season and have demonstrated a desire to do very well.

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?