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  For weeks, the teenage boy across the street flashed S.O.S. in Morse code from his bedroom window. I'm a former Marine, so I told him to quit playing around. The night he changed the message to "WE NEED YOUR HELP," I realized the boy had been desperately trying to reach out all along. My name is Harold. I'm a former Marine, though these days my battles are mostly fought with my own knees. I'd been living a quiet life in a small house for years, but that all changed when I got new neighbors. They moved into the house across the road one Saturday morning in June, a couple in their 40s with a teenage son and a young daughter. They looked like a picture-perfect family, but looks can be deceiving. They moved into the house across the road. A day later, the whole lot of them marched across the road to introduce themselves. "Good afternoon!" The man offered his hand the moment I opened the door. "We're new in town and wanted to introduce ourselves. I...

  The fallout surrounding Jeffrey Epstein continues to ripple through Hollywood. For an industry no stranger to controversy, new revelations in the Epstein files add another chapter to Tinseltown’s complicated past. According to the Department of Justice, the newly disclosed archive includes millions of emails, photos, and documents, many of which reference well-known figures from politics, business, and the entertainment world. Hollywood’s long history with scandal In a Feb. 14 update to Congress, officials said they had issued what they described as “a final list of 305 prominent figures,” spanning celebrities, political leaders, and decorated film stars. At the same time, the department stressed that simply appearing in the files does not indicate wrongdoing or criminal conduct. While certain individuals on the list have widely reported connections to the convicted sex offender, many others have no known record of ever meeting or interacting with Epstein. The names span a broad ...

  In 1975, the property sold for less than $100,000. Today, it is worth nearly $1.1 million, and after 50 years of memories made within its walls, it has become a crime scene. The Catalina Foothills home in Tucson, Arizona, is the house where "Today" anchor Savannah Guthrie spent her childhood. It is also the last place her 84-year-old mother, Nancy, was seen before she was taken, and the details of the property itself tell a story that is hard to ignore. Where It All Began Savannah was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1971, where her father's work had taken the family. When they relocated to the U.S. in 1975, she was just a toddler. Her parents chose Tucson — and this house — and that was that. The one-story home became the setting for everything: Sunday services at Casas Adobes Baptist Church, kite-flying afternoons with her father, and the kind of rooted, unhurried family life Savannah still speaks about with pride. She would go on to attend the University of Arizona b...

  Actor and playwright Tom Noonan, whose haunting screen presence made him a go-to choice for villains and offbeat characters, has died at 74. According to reports, Noonan passed away on Feb. 14. The news was first shared by director Fred Dekker, who worked closely with the actor on the cult classic The Monster Squad, where Noonan memorably portrayed Frankenstein’s monster. In a heartfelt Facebook tribute, Dekker wrote, “It’s with great sadness that I share the passing of Tom Noonan … Tom’s indelible performance as Frankenstein in THE MONSTER SQUAD is a highlight of my modest filmography, doubtless aided by the masterful make-up designed by Stan Winston, sculpted by Tom Woodruff Jr., and applied by Zoltan Elek.” He ended his message with a final farewell, calling Noonan “the proverbial gentleman and scholar, and the world has lost a great talent. R.I.P. Tom. Thanks for the great work.” No cause of death has been publicly released. A career built on unforgettable characters Standing...

 It happens at least once a month like clockwork: I wake up from a solid eight-hour sleep, only to realize I’ve pulled my back and I can’t lift my arm beyond shoulder height. Sure, it’s frustrating because the pain shoots through my body like a knife, but even more so because I know the issues are a result of me sleeping on my stomach — the only position I’m able to fall asleep in. My sleep posture is far from ideal, since a large body of science concludes that sleeping on your stomach puts pressure on the respiratory system, nerves, ribcage, and spine, all while increasing heart rate — none of which are conducive to a good night’s sleep. Our sleep positions also affect our health and mood in more ways than many of us realize, and there's actually an ideal sleep posture to aim for each night: sleeping on your side. This position keeps your spine straight and aligned, since “it will help prevent stress points that may aggravate joints and connective tissue,” says Dr. Robert Hayden, ...

  Like many Americans, I grew up in a Christian home — and there really were lots of great things about that. Religion can offer a sense of peace and community, and even some pretty fun holidays. I genuinely enjoyed all those outdoor church picnics and delightfully bad Christmas pageants my parents dragged me to, and if I hadn’t been raised in the church I wouldn’t have met any of my dearest childhood friends. But as an adult, I’ve found myself identifying as agnostic more and more, and happily so. Just to clarify, as Wikipedia puts it, identifying as agnostic means you believe that, "the truth values of certain claims — especially metaphysical and religious claims such as whether or not God, the divine or the supernatural exist — are unknown and perhaps unknowable.” It's a belief system that, according to a recent Pew survey, is held by up to 23 percent of Americans. (Although, the survey also grouped atheists with agnostics, so that number may actually be a bit lower.) Being...