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Sacramento's mayoral race has taken place against a backdrop of claims, counterclaims and a federal investigation into organizations run by Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star challenging the incumbent.

Twelve years after the death of Adrian Conway, whose murder exposed a risky Child Protective Services policy and forced massive reform within the agency, Sacramento's most vulnerable children still are being failed at the most basic level, a five-month Bee investigation found.

Sacramento Bee photographer Renée C. Byer was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography Monday for her work in "A Mother's Journey," a series that chronicled a dying boy's final year.

Cyndie French of West Sacramento has been inspired and uplifted by the kindnesses of hundreds of strangers.

Cyndie French is out of the house for the first time in days. She is sitting at a pizza parlor with other American Cancer Society volunteers, chatting about an upcoming charity event. She is trying, for just a couple of hours, to distract herself from the fact that her youngest boy, Derek, has cancer and her oldest son, Anthony, has disappeared.

Cyndie French, a single mother of five children ages 6 to 18, celebrated her 40th birthday in November, but this afternoon she is feeling much older. She has been up for most of the past three nights with Derek as he moans and cries in pain. Her youngest son, 11 years old, has neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer of the nerve cells, and the disease has spread throughout his body.

Derek has neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer that begins in the nerve cells and spreads to the rest of the body. The good news is that UC Davis doctors have harvested enough healthy stem cells from his bone marrow to perform a blood transplant that could save his life. The bad news is that the treatment is risky and comes with no guarantees. But at least it carries hope.

When you look into the face of someone with cancer, you may have no idea what is going on beyond chemo and radiation. It's human nature to turn away. But it is real life, and it is going on in homes all over this country, where more than 1 million people are diagnosed every year. Cyndie French and her son Derek opened their lives for a year to share their story.