New kidney needed: Two-year-old was born with one kidney, which is failing (The Jackson Sun)

HUMBOLDT - Mary Brown will ask anyone to pray for her adopted 2-year-old son, who was born with kidney failure.

According to one New Year's tradition, cabbage is king of good fortune (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

Why not start 2009 with all the cards stacked in your favor?

Planting the seeds of ideas: Good winter reads for any dirt-turner (The Kansas City Star)

For those holed up inside dreaming of spring, here’s a list of landscape and gardening books that would be a great addition to your coffee table or bookshelf:

For avid gardeners, six books to grow on (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

By JOEL M. LERNER For those who reluctantly come in from the garden for the winter, we offer these landscape and gardening books for your holiday reading and gift list this year: Herbaceous Perennial Plants: A Treatise on Their Identification, Culture, and Garden Attributes, by Allan M. Armitage (Stipes, $84.80), is not exactly a curl-up-on-the-couch type of book, considering that it’s an ...