*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In 2003, when Heather Johnson was 19, her car was T-boned by another. A driver ran a red light, and the impact severely bruised ...

From her hospital bed, Alexis Ratcliff asks a question: "What 18-year-old gets sued?" Ratcliff is that 18-year-old, sued by the hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C., that wants her to leave. Ratcliff, a ...

Ratcliff, a quadriplegic who uses a ventilator, has lived at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since she was 13. She wants to leave, too. But not to the nursing home the hospital found for her in ...

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