PROBATION SYSTEM IN CRISIS
Documents and interviews show that state probation chief Robert Lee Guy had known, at least since 2004, about shoddy work in Wake County that could threaten public safety.
Audio slide show: The N&O investigates the system.
After surgery, baby is thriving
The baby book that Jason and Susan Williamson keep for their daughter, Anna, is filled with the ordinary, happy milestones of infancy: Anna smiling at her parents at two months. Sitting up at six months. Crawling at 10 months.
Chapter four: A special delivery
CHAPEL HILL -- When Nancy Chescheir's pager went off on that Saturday morning, she suspected who was calling. Just the day before, she had seen Susan and Jason Williamson in her office for Susan's regular checkup. She had encouraged them, once again, to c
Chapter three: The ordeal of recovery
The doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center assured Susan Williamson that she could be discharged on the Saturday after her Wednesday surgery, and she wanted nothing better than to be home, in Holly Springs.
Chapter one: A daunting choice
Susan and Jason Williamson share a last moment in the admissions office at Vanderbilt medical center before she is scheduled to have surgery. As they fill out the hospital forms, they still have doubts about whether they are making the right decision for
Spina Bifida:
