Zacharias Holmes grew up idolizing the anarchy of ‘Jackass.’ Then he took his idols’ vision of chaos to a whole other level. This is the story of Zackass, the Most Self-Destructive Man in America.

Swept out to sea by a riptide, a father and his 12-year-old autistic son struggle to stay alive. As night falls, the dad comes to a devastating realization: If they remain together, they’ll drown together.

What does it take to save a 300-pound loggerhead with a horrible injury? Inside the yearlong journey of recovery.

As the last remaining Blockbusters shut their doors, a portrait of the customers, the staff, and what it was like as they were finally losing each other, after almost 30 years.

A mom looks back on the “brief but wondrous experience” of raising her son Mattie, a little boy poet with a devastating rare disease who earned a following around the world.

A night of terror in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

He used to weigh 1,000 pounds. Now he has to figure out what to do with the rest of his life.

Twenty-four years ago, a Missouri father plunged a needle filled with HIV-positive blood into his son’s vein. No one at the time could’ve imagined anything worse. But even more astonishing is the life the son turned out to live.

The life of the former defensive tackle, who was paralyzed during a kickoff return.

Searching for Puddles the Clown, whose cover of Lorde’s “Royals” made him an Internet star.

One woman’s beautiful, strange, and troubling final days.

A combat veteran trains to be a college football placekicker.

Life after scoring 100-plus points in a basketball game.

Ashlyn Blocker, 13, has a “congenital insensitivity to pain.”

The people behind “the only American luxury compact sport sedan.”

A couple’s story.

A family of Georgia churchgoers contracted the plague of their time, HIV. Some survived, some didn’t—this is the story of their family over thirty years.

Fourteen other tornadoes hit Georgia on April 27 and 28. This was not the record — that would be twenty, during Tropical Storm Alberto in 1994. But it was one of the worst twenty-four-hour periods in the history of the state. Tornadoes hit Trenton, Cherokee Valley, south of LaGrange, and Covington; killed seven people in a neighborhood in Catoosa County, swept through Ringgold, and killed two more — a disabled man and his caregiver — in a double-wide trailer on the far end of Spalding County. Those tornadoes got all the attention. The Vaughn tornado didn’t even warrant an article in a major newspaper. No one talked about Vaughn. The only way for a person to really find out about it was to drive past.

Four unhealthy, bearded, mostly unknown comedians from Atlanta tour 3,020 miles in a van.

On the fascination, from Hollywood to Atlanta, with zombies.