To all the do-gooders out there, Beth Muehlhausen advises you to take your cause and go jump in a pool. Seriously. She puts her money where her mouth is. The Gilbert woman has taken to leaping into ...

As a journalist, I’m a creature of deadline. I signed up to participate in the challenge to swim 15 miles in June for the American Red Cross, and of course I waited until the very last day to finish.

Although it happened decades ago, the memory of this day on the water is crystal. Then 8-year-old Kristie had gone with her father to a public pool in Raleigh and was begging to go off the diving ...