The board responsible for protecting the public from bad counselors and non-medical therapists is slow to handle complaints, state Auditor General Debra Davenport said Friday.

The board responsible for protecting the public from bad counselors and non-medical therapists is slow to handle complaints, state Auditor General Debra Davenport said Friday.

By some standards, my parents’ marriage would not be viewed as inspiring.

It’s 6 p.m. and the house is about to boil over like the dinner on the stove.

February 1, 2005

Two years ago, Mary and Mark Smith attended a marriage counseling session to lend support to their son and his wife. They found out it was their own marriage that benefited.

After 2 1/2 years of marriage, Amanda and Kevin Sheehan are expecting their first child. What better time to take a look at their relationship and see where it might need some fine-tuning, the couple thought.

For Mike Saye and Daryl Cox, it was the Iraq War that unearthed the horrors of combat. The Vietnam veterans struggled for nearly 30 years with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, but never sought help until young Americans started fighting, and dying, in the Middle East.

When Miranda Kettlewell gets antsy during her hourlong piano practice, she takes a break to run around the house and roar like a dragon with her mom, Naomi Karstad, chasing behind.

Divorce can be ugly. You’re forced to split time with the kids, and divide the bank accounts. You fight bitter battles for kitchen gadgets and big-screen TVs and season tickets.

As long as they keep making sequels to "Meet the Parents" (2001), Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) will never know peace. The best he can hope for — at least in respect to his disapproving future father-in-law (Robert De Niro) — is one short-lasting armistice after another.

December 22, 2004

Five-hundred years ago, the Guarani Indians of Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia started using the plant Ka’a He’ê — translated to English as “sweet herb” — for consumption and medical treatments.

The woman said she just had to tell someone how awful her life has become since her husband retired. He follows her everywhere, she said. He wants to know who she’s talking to on the phone and says, “Didn’t you talk to her Tuesday?”

For 30 years, East Valley resident Wayne Johnson has counseled troubled teenagers, parents adopting special-needs children and hundreds of adults who have experienced psychological trauma.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) -- Secured with leg irons and shackles around his wrists and waist, Scott Peterson was taken to San Quentin State Prison early today after being sentenced to die for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci.

Karen Marshall was pulling down $100,000 a year as a vice president with a manufacturing firm when she walked away to give birth to her first child and never looked back.

For 30 years, I have been a leader in my church and community of Mesa. I announce to the world in this column that I am a gay Mormon. Putting those two words together in print is the hardest thing I’ve had to face.

LOS ANGELES - Kevin Federline failed as a rapper. Now can he succeed as a parent? K-Fed became K-Dad full-time Monday when a judge ordered Britney Spears to temporarily surrender custody of the couple's sons - Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1 - to Federline.

In early 2002, Pamela Ohls’ daughter Jessica, then 17, sat in the family dining room doing homework with her boyfriend. Ohls stood in the bathroom, speechless, staring at a positive home pregnancy test.

FALL CITY, Wash. — Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing the video game "World of Warcraft." As a result, he flunked out of the University of Iowa.

Perhaps more than any other holiday, Thanksgiving is associated with big family gatherings. But that doesn’t mean you need a house full of in-laws, uncles and cousins to celebrate in a meaningful way.

Perhaps more than any other holiday, Thanksgiving is associated with big family gatherings. But that doesn't mean you need a house full of in-laws, uncles and cousins to celebrate in a meaningful way.

 Each morning, Leslie Youngstrom is up before 5 and out the door by 6 so she can get to her executive-level job by 6:30. She leaves work at 3:30 p.m., but her breakneck day isn’t over.