Here’s Danielle:
Psycho is Jarod Ceres, 26, a Middleton garbage collector by day. He leaned against a ring at Chaotic’s North Andover training center, wearing a striped shirt and corduroy bucket hat over his dirty-blond hair. The blond was no more real than the pink: he dyed it for a wedding. Just behind his head, wrestlers [...]

Check out Konrad:
Helio Castroneves is late. Not by much, but enough to be noticeable for a man who makes his living getting from one place to another as quickly as he can.
The source of his lateness Wednesday, four days before the running of the Indianapolis 500, is a crowd. His crowd.

Lee Hill Kavanaugh:
Her phone rings at 10 p.m. The voice on the other end is quiet, uncertain.
I just got picked up by the police. … Do you hate me?
Donnette Siems takes a deep breath and looks down at Victoria’s baby cradled in her lap.
Maddie. Seven pounds of hope.
Big eyes and silky curls. A near copy [...]

Ashlee in an e-mail: Some Mike Levine teachings have trickled their way into my dailies. A co-worker and I just completed a profile of a man who died in a mysterious house fire.

Meghan Murphy: Adam Bosch definitely used some workshop tips on a daily crime story in today’s Record. Note that he asked the neighbors exactly what they were doing (vacuuming and tinkering with the leaf blower) when Elisabeta ran into their garage screaming, with a hole in her shoulder “the size of a half dollar.”

Here:
Buddy Johnson feels most comfortable in restaurants. He visits four a day sometimes. The chatter and the clatter of cutlery offer the illusion that he’s less alone.
The restaurant he goes to most these days is BuddyFreddys, where the waitresses greet him by name and he eats for free. Sitting at his table, he can see [...]

Scott:
What up, my Obama?
In the hallways of Albany High School, that is the new hello.
If you sneeze, your friends at Albany High might say “Barack you.” Goofing off in the hallway? “Barack’s in the White House now” means cool it.