A college student home for the weekend might expect a warm bed and a hot meal. That had to wait for Addie Witt, who drove east Friday night from Ohio's Otterbein College to join her father, Kerry Witt, on a chilly parking lot sleepover next to the cinder block wall of a Sam's Club in Washington County. (Today)

He was "the nicest guy in the world," except that when she lost her disability claim and money got tight, the beatings got worse: He pulled her up by her neck, pointed a gun at her, tried to break her hand and told her he would like to kill her. (Today)

The Scafuris of Shaler -- Amy, her husband, James, and daughters Jamie, 15, and Jesse, 5 -- are among the millions affected by the country's economic downturn, but their concerns are for others less fortunate. (Today)

Bankrupted by the country he helped create and forgotten by a history he set on its course, Arthur St. Clair lies on a hillside in Greensburg, discarded beer cans littering his patriot grave. (Today)

The drab, faded, red facade of the Mac Can Do bar squats at the intersection of Homewood's Brushton Avenue and Kelly Street, one of the most violent corners in Pittsburgh. (Today)