Family

Meet the Cimorellis

The 44-year-old Lynne Cimorelli knows her family seems unusual, especially when her 11 children pile out of their 15-passenger van.

Rebuilding Helen

After surviving breast cancer and a divorce, Helen Higby discusses her two-part breast reconstruction surgery and her self-image.

SiCKO

Filmmaker Michael Moore addresses a legislative briefing and joins with nurses to promote a single payer health care intitative. He and several hundred nurses marched to the Crest Theatre to watch an Sacramento screening of his film SiCKO.

Families Kept Apart


Get-tough immigration statutes designed to punish illegal entry into this country are -- in some cases -- disrupting households, straining family finances -- and, at times, leaving children coping with the absence of a parent. Read Story

2007 Pulitzer Announcement

Sacramento Bee senior photographer Renée Byer recieves word that she is the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

103

To say he isn't acting his age is not to insult or praise the man but to state the obvious. He is 103 going on 104, and there are no signs that he is going to slow down.

A mother's journey

In May 2005, Bee photographer Renée C. Byer met Cyndie French, whose 10-year-old son, Derek Madsen, was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer. In the following year, Byer and reporter Cynthia Hubert documented the highs and lows of Derek's fight for life. It was a story Cyndi wanted others to learn from. Read project