David Crary

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In this Oct. 9, 2014 photo, Associated Press reporter Kathy Gannon answers questions during an interview in New York. This was Gannon's first interview since she and AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus were attacked on April 4, by a gunman in Khost Province in eastern Afghanistan as they prepared to cover the presidential election the next day. Niedringhaus was killed in the attack and Gannon is recovering from multiple gunshot wounds. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Wounded AP reporter vows to return to Afghanistan

David Crary · October 15, 2014 7:17 am

In this May 27, 2014 photo provided by the Jacksonville Public Education Fund, Brian Ellis, an algebra teacher, works with his students at First Coast High School. Ellis is a Jacksonville School Leadership Fellow, a Quality Education for All program that takes high-performing teachers and trains them to become school principals. A Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 report by the Chronicle of Philanthropy detailed how Jacksonville donors had rallied behind a campaign to improve the region's public schools via a Quality Education for All fund launched in 2005 with a goal of raising $50 million. (AP Photo/Jacksonville Public Education Fund, Susan Sanders)

Wealthy giving less to charity; Utah tops states

David Crary · October 6, 2014 10:22 am

In this Tuesday, March 19, 2013 file photo, a man sits among the debris of a destroyed school in the village of Budyali, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. A global index reflecting economic security, health and other factors released Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 ranks Norway and Sweden with the highest level of well-being for older people. Of the 96 nations in the index, Afghanistan ranked last. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Index ranks Norway tops for well-being of elderly

David Crary · September 30, 2014 7:06 pm

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, SEPT. 29, 2014, AND THEREAFTER- This undated product imaged provided by SCRUFF shows an example of the SCRUFF app. High-tech gay dating apps and social media services have enabled countless men to expand their circles of friends and lovers in settings that are hostile to any overt trace of homosexuality. Yet the same technology that they gratefully embrace exposes them to the risks of blackmail, arrest and violence. (AP Photo/SCRUFF)

For some gays abroad, social networking poses risk

David Crary · September 28, 2014 4:10 pm

FILE - In this March 2, 2014 file photo, Jennifer Lawrence arrives at the Oscarsat the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. As the celebrity photo-hacking scandal has made clear, privacy isn't what it used to be. Whether famous or seemingly anonymous, people from all walks of life put all sorts of things online or into cloud-based storage systems, from vital financial information to the occasional nude photo. Periodic cases of hacking fuel outrage, but there's no retreat from digital engagement or any imminent promise of guaranteed privacy. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Photo hacking rekindles digital privacy worries

David Crary · September 3, 2014 1:38 pm

In this Aug. 14, 2014 photo, Sophia McIntosh stands for a photo outside a construction site where she works as a shop steward, in New York. The latest federal data shows about 7.1 million Americans were employed in construction-related occupations last year and only 2.6 percent were women. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Few women in construction; recruiting efforts rise

David Crary · August 30, 2014 4:49 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2014 file photo, Kenyan gays, lesbians and supporters wear masks to preserve their anonymity, as they stage a rare protest, against Uganda's increasingly tough stance against homosexuality outside the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya. Human rights and gay rights activists on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, urged President Barack Obama to ensure that the issue of anti-gay discrimination in Africa is on the agenda at next week's summit in Washington with more than 40 African leaders. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Activists want gay rights on Africa summit agenda

David Crary · July 29, 2014 9:46 pm

Giving increases for some sectors, not for others

David Crary · June 17, 2014 4:07 am

For kids of bankrupt Detroit, challenges abound

David Crary · March 24, 2014 12:00 am

Girl Scouts asked to end partnership with Barbie

David Crary · March 6, 2014 3:52 pm

More Olympic-linked furor over Russia anti-gay law

David Crary · February 6, 2014 4:48 am

Boy Scouts salute.

Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

Nomaan Merchant, David Crary · May 23, 2013 4:00 am