National She was a single mom, alone at hospital with her son. Then a familiar face appeared In 2006, Patricia Nieshoff's three-year-old son had a seizure. She was a single mother, with no one to accompany her to the hospital. But an hour into her hospital stay, a familiar face appeared. Laura Kwerel Brigid McCarthy
Health How do you get siblings to be nice to each other? Latino families have an answer Over the past few decades, psychologists have begun to understand how parents across many cultures teach their children to build deep, fulfilling relationships with their siblings. Michaeleen Doucleff
Science Terrance the octopus came to live with a family. Then she laid dozens of eggs The Clifford family was as prepared as possible to welcome Terrance the octopus. But there was one thing they missed: she was pregnant. And then she laid a whole lot of eggs. Jordan-Marie Smith Sarah Handel
National 'I was broken and needed help': After her father died, a stranger stepped in When Roxanne Olson found herself in the middle of a security scare at Chicago's O'Hare airport, a woman walked up to her and said: "I'm here to help people like you." Autumn Barnes Laura Kwerel
National A funeral home worker tracked down a family — and uncovered a decades-old secret A worker at a funeral home managed to locate the family members of an ailing woman. She didn't realize she was uncovering a family secret that went back to the 1940s. Laura Kwerel
Government Will it be illegal for fertility doctors to secretly inseminate patients in Washington state? Washington could become the 10th state in the country to make it illegal for doctors to use their own genetic material to inseminate patients without their consent. Diana Opong
Business Why children of married parents do better, but America is moving the other way Almost half of all babies born in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. That's not good for children, says progressive economist Melissa Kearney in her new book, The Two-Parent Privilege. Pallavi Gogoi
