In the hit movie "Legally Blonde," Elle Woods, a preppy, blond sorority girl, gets accepted to the prestigious Harvard Law School because she submits a quirky video starring herself -- adorned in a bikini. Applying for college wasn't nearly so simple for Ryan Gates, a senior at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School.

B arefoot 'n' Sandals is a rock group from New Palestine with Christian values. Though band members -- Megan Stiffler, 17, Mike McCall, 17, Forrest Craig, 18, Adam Speicher, 17, and Chris Ballard, 17 -- don't fit the stereotypical rocker image, the musical influences are sound. "Just because (we) don't fall into the temptations that most rockers do, that doesn't make it any less rock," Stiffler sa

Earlier this month, an estimated 300,000 people from around the country met at Indiana Black Expo to celebrate the accomplishments of African-Americans. During the event, Expo released a report produced by the Indiana Youth Institute that showed Indiana's black youth continue to be more at risk of failure than white youth. The study, based on data from federal, state and local sources, found low b

When he was a kid, Brad Williams got fed up with people who gawked at him because he was a dwarf. But his dad made sure he didn't gripe about it. "He told me, 'Listen: You have this condition,' " Williams recalled. " 'People are going to stare at you your whole life. You have two choices: A: You can cry about it, get sad about it and feel sorry for yourself; or B: You can use it to educate others

Firdas Abamislimov, 15; Abdullah Abamislimov and Yusuf Abamislimov, both 12; and Maleyka Musoyeva, 15, were born in Russia and miss their friends and family still there, but they consider themselves lucky. Their ancestors were deported from their own country more than 60 years ago, and as Meskhetian Turks have faced a long, hard struggle. About 70 of these refugees are working to make Indianapolis their home.

What makes Zoe and Evan Stern extraordinary isn't that their parents divorced; it's that they wrote a book to help other kids whose parents were divorcing, too. And that's a big group. According to government statistics, about 1 million children go through their parents' divorce every year.