Lying just beds apart in Children's Hospital, two critically ill infants needed transplants. Three-month-old Jason Wolfe was on a waiting list for new lungs, while Kayla Richardson, at two months old, needed a new heart. The odds were against them and time was running out.

When a heart-lung set became available, doctors began a rare “domino transplant,“ giving the donated organs to Jason and using his healthy heart to save Kayla.

» Rare operation pays off at Children's

For an Ohio soybean destined for Japan, a journey of 6,700 miles begins with a single step.

Millions of American smokers are trying to quit the habit. John Rea, a stay-at-home dad on the North Side, is one of them. The Dispatch followed Rea's efforts for two months for this series.

A trip along the designated "scenic byway" that snakes along the Ohio River really is a toxic tour.

Ohio leads the nation in home foreclosure, a problem fueled by a weak economy, aggressive mortgage brokers, financial overreaching and tepid state oversight.

Big Darby Creek has been called one of the nation's "last great places." For the most part, it has avoided the sprawl and pollution that have doomed other Ohio waterways.

Jobs draw thousands of Mexicans to Columbus and other cities where restaurants, landscaping companies, construction crews and others have trouble finding workers for relatively low wages.

Friends and relatives follow.

Pipeline from Mexico is a three-day look at the human pipeline that runs between Columbus and El Paxtle, a farming community of 1,500 in a remote part of central Mexico.

In a three-part series The Dispatch looks at Columbus' four hospital systems and the for-profit specialty hospitals that are competing against them.