Superior High School student Ari Robillard, second from left, reacts as her teammates, Taylor Schultz, left, and Paige B. Johnson balance a weighted bucket on their toothpick bridge at the American ...

Seventh-grader Jacoby Yliniemi dropped a bowl of sand into the bucket being held up by his group’s toothpick bridge, bit his lip and then relaxed. The bridge was safe. At least for a second. Another ...

These are arcs of toothpick triumph. At Manos House, a Lancaster city drug- and alcohol-treatment facility for teenage boys, residents bridge an uncertain past for a more positive future - even with ...