An oral history of WFAN.

What would drive a man to stand outside the Vatican embassy nearly every day for 14 years?

On caring for a bipolar parent amidst a broken mental health care system.

One night in Newark with Chris Christie and Bruce Springsteen.

“No one is beyond the reach of Bruce!” he screams over the noise of the crowd, and then screams it again, to make sure I understand: “No one is beyond the reach of Bruce!”

The bizarre story of the disappearance of “downtown legend” John Lurie after a former friend resolved to take his life.

A profile of Fiona Apple.

Perpetually reinvented through experimental chemistry, manufactured in Asian mills, packaged in foil with names like White Slut Concentrated and Charley Sheene for use as “hookah cleaner,” distributed in college town head shops, snorted and injected by hardened addicts and high school thrill seekers alike, bath salts may be the strangest and most volatile American drug craze since crack. And they’re (quasi) legal.

How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.

A profile of life in Owsley County, one of the poorest in the country.

A coffee shop owner finally gets to shut down his store.

The Penn State sex abuse scandal as told through a father, a son and “Victim 1.”

She was a thirteen-year-old from the Chabad Lubavitch community who would dip into a barbershop bathroom to swap her orthodox clothes for those of a streetwalker. Her pimping and rape allegations against a group of black men in their twenties, repeatedly recanted and then reaffirmed, would send the D.A.’s office into disarray.

On conspiracy theories in sports, from the ‘85 NBA draft lottery to Michael Phelps’ gold medal performance in the 100-meter butterfly.

It’s a club “filled exclusively with people who do not want to be members.”

How a surgical innovation allowed Dallas Weins to find a new face.

On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.

A cop kills a fellow officer during a drug bust and claims it was an accident. Others suspect that it wasn’t.

On “Poor Hartley,” the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

In 1979, a Pulitzer was given to “an unnamed photographer of United Press International” who documented a mass execution in Iran.

His name is Jahangir Razmi – and, nearly three decades later, he wants the credit.

The author of Truly Tasteless Jokes unmasks herself.

The story behind the story that ended Dan Rather’s career.