At 21, Thomas Yancey killed a teenager during a robbery. He’s served his time and is trying to make a clean start. But that’s not easy when the state is telling the world he’s a sex offender.
Author Archives: Stephen Young
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Should This Woman Be Arrested?
For MS sufferer Julie Falco, marijuana is a miracle drug. This week she’ll try to get state legislators to see it that way.
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The Colonel’s Weed
Tribune boss Robert McCormick had a farm, and on that farm he grew some hemp.
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First Man at the Massacre
A few months before he died last year, veteran reporter Walter Trohan changed his story about how he beat the mob to the scene of the Saint Valentine’s Day shootings.
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The Gross-Out Effect
Fed up with unresponsive editors, novelist Geoffrey Bent wrote a sick little satire about a necrophiliac. Last month, after three decades of trying, he finally got published.
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Armed and Dangerous
young.qxd As the father of Andrew Young, the young man whose murder by handgun was examined by Tori Marlin in “Dealing Death” [June 6], I have to take exception to the comments sent in by Todd Field of Wheeling [Letters, June 27]. The standard propaganda of the National Rifle Association, repeated almost verbatim by Field, […]