Cain's Barber College and Styling on South Side Chicago provides free haircuts for students returning to school in association with Chicago Area Project. Chicago Tribune video
Georgia Rhone explains how a bad debt forced her into a "sub prime" mortgage which now threatens to take home that's been in her family more than 50-years.
Shaquanda Cotton, 15, was jailed for pushing a hall monitor at her Paris, Texas high school. She might have remained in prison until she was 21 but a story written by Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribune raised a furor and she was released late last month.