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Nine-year-old Teagan Ellsworth and her 7-year-old brother Leo collect aluminum cans in their Pittsburgh neighborhood. They crush them and bring them to a scrap metal business for recycling.

Cookie-baking season is not complete without an offering from sisters Sheila and Marilynn Brass. The two Massachusetts recipe collectors recall the special holiday shortbread cookies they'd have as children when their Jewish family would go to the house of their Catholic friends, the Sullivans.

Growing up in 1960s Nebraska, Linda Hernandez and her sister were among the few Latino students in town. When it was time to take the SAT, their guidance counselor told them not to bother. She told them that "all we would do is have babies," Linda says.

Audie Cornish talks to Sister Angela of the Good Shepherd Convent in Cairo. On Thursday, she welcomed in three fellow nuns fleeing their sister convent and school in Suez that was set ablaze on Wednesday.

Despite her family encouraging her to evacuate and seek safety regardless of their own situation, Shehade was racked with guilt over leaving her four siblings and parents in the war-torn Rafah, which may soon become a center point in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war as Israeli forces inch toward a ground assault.

Commentator Amy Dickinson writes about sibling rivalry. She knows that sisters are often rivals. But in the case of the Williams sisters, it is especially hard, because there is always a winner and a loser.

The Spanish island of Mallorca, a popular resort destination known as the "jewel of the Mediterranean," is in the spotlight now as Princess Cristina, the king's sister, goes on trial for fraud.

WGLT's the Leadoff is everything you need to know for Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Bloomington City Manager Tim Gleason says the city is changing the way it's managing Grossinger Motors Arena going forward. Plus, Republican State Senator Jason Barickman tells WGLT's Charlie Schlenker he has problems with the way the state went about transferring some medium security inmates out of the Pontiac Correctional Center.

Jamilah, Zaynah and Latifah McBryde grew up wrestling one another in Buffalo, N.Y. Coaches recognized their talent, but they couldn't wear the required wrestling singlet due to their faith.

Victoria Baker was sentenced to 30 months probation Tuesday for harassing a witness in the 2019 murder trial of her sister Cynthia Baker, who was convicted of the brutal murder of an 8-year-old girl.