Denver resident Wayne Tomas is a father and husband, a perpetual academic, a former DJ who dreamed of working in sports medicine. He is also a convicted felon.

After news broke that Mountain Vista basketball player Bailey Roby may have made his last court appearance on Jan. 24, CHSAA said it will let the senior — who wears two prosthetic legs — play with certain conditions.

With the last few minutes trickling off the clock, it was a layup by Mountain Vista senior Bailey Roby that made the crowd erupt in cheers. “I’m usually a three-man,” said Roby, referencing his prolific ability to make his shots beyond the perimeter. A bittersweet moment, and possibly the last chance the teen will have to score in his high school career.

It’s been about a year since 7-year-old Delaney Stafford was diagnosed with leukemia, but that does not stop her from running down the stairs at the sound of a doorbell or getting in tickle fights with her father. “I’ve only heard her say, ‘this isn’t fair,’ twice since she was diagnosed last year,” her mother, Stacey Stafford, said.

After arresting seven men in April for online sex crimes against children, the Saraland Police Department has become exemplar of a new investigative model. As technology evolves, online sting investigations have become more common in attempts to stem the tide of predators seeking children on the Internet. It is not exactly the job he pictured when he entered law enforcement, according to Saraland Cpl. James Morton. In his office, somewhere in the labyrinth of hallways through a thicket of jail cells, Morton can often be found filling out forms and compiling the case files for Internet Crimes Against Children probes, a bureaucratic cap to a perverse series of investigations.

CHICKASAW — Twelve Chickasaw graduates tossed their caps into the warm night air on Friday to mark the fledgling school system’s first graduating senior class independent from the county. “They said you wouldn't make it, but here you are,” Chickasaw school board president Robert McFall said. “Mobile County's eyes and the state of Alabama’s eyes are on us tonight as one of the state’s newest and brightest school systems.”

After 13 years of drug use, six children, a handful of stints in jail and rehab, and losing custody of an infant who tested positive for methamphetamine at birth, Michelle Marlowe is a testament to the impli-cations wrought on the children of addicts.