Thousands of area students will speak in a single voice next month as they attempt to set a world record for the number of students reading aloud simultaneously. At 9:30 ...

Operation Hug-a-Hero started nearly three years ago as a nonprofit arm of Daddy Dolls, a for-profit Michigan company founded by another military mom and a friend of Berg’s.

Since the first months of the Iraq War in 2003, soldiers deployed from Fort Hood knew they’d always be sent off and welcomed home with a hug. She’s known to them as the “Hug Lady,” and for ...