Theresa Vargas

One of the cards comes from a girl who will turn 8 on Inauguration Day.

The city and its surrounding suburbs are bracing for what the inauguration might bring.

Cristy Hanes had started the day excited about a new job.

Franck Le Bousse and his wife, Beth Miller, say they were told that more than a dozen doses would expire if people didn’t get the shots that day.

Where children end up matters, especially during a pandemic that has seen so many lose relatives and stability.

The awkward photos. The bizarre holiday decorations. That relative’s habit of arriving late. We never thought we’d miss all that — and now, well, we do.

The requests for help that have come into Alice’s Kids tell of lost parents, moves to homeless shelters and school bullying that kept going even when in-person learning didn’t.

A man who will move into an apartment on Monday has been homeless for 15 years.

Organizations that rely on alternative gift giving are seeing a picture that goes beyond those familiar brown packages that are landing on doorsteps.

Bill Vaughan was determined to put up his lights this year. Then the leg of a 16-foot ladder he stood on sunk into the ground.