Bob Greene

If the children in central Nebraska about whom we have been reporting--the children allegedly tortured in Hall County--are depending on the courts to vigorously protect them, it's probably best if...

Once the current concern and compassion for the children who were tortured in Hall County, in central Nebraska, fades away, what will become of those children? The requirements of Nebraska...

The official version is that the children who were tortured in Hall County, Neb., are "doing well." The children are in state-arranged foster care; Kathie Osterman, spokeswoman for the Nebraska...

What you have done to lift the spirits of the central Nebraska children about whom we have been reporting is, according to a state official, without precedent. "It's wonderful," said...

What a shame. Not the city -- not Cincinnati, as this summer after the April riots limps toward Labor Day. Cincinnati has nothing to be ashamed of -- at least...

George W. Bush may have sent the world the most important message of his young presidency without doing a thing. And he may be unaware of it. He is in...

There are moments when the world sends you a little message that maybe you ought to calm down, exhale, and let your nerves unclench. Such a moment came at a...

The major airlines are having to reconsider their policies about young children who fly unaccompanied by their parents. The debate inside the airline industry comes in the wake of four...

Sometimes the most comforting news of all is that the headlines don't really count. Meaning that the things that seem so overridingly important today -- the news events that dominate...

The reason for reporting on the saddening cases of child torture in Hall County, in central Nebraska, is not because such things go on only here. The reason is the...