My coworker, Dave Shampine, covered a stabbing Wednesday that caused a soldier to be charged with manslaughter.

On Friday, we both shared a front page with follow ups. His told the victim’s family’s story and mine was about the soldier’s military history.

The main story on the page was an educational piece about the tricky business of home inspections.

On Saturday, I covered a tragic breaking-news story about a head-on collision that killed an 8-year-old and her great-grandma.

Vice President Joe Biden visited 2nd Brigade on Wednesday.  The brigade just wrapped up training Iraqi troops. Remarkably, they are not being replaced by other American troops, but by Iraqis themselves.

In addition to the WDT piece, I wrote one for the Associated Press.

I wrote an in-depth story on a local housing crisis that will likely get worse as more soldiers come back from Iraq.

I now work in upstate New York, at the Watertown Daily Times,  covering Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain Division.  You can see my latest stories here.

Here is one- featured above- that I wrote about the Secretary of the Army visiting Fort Drum.

Nicole Ross- Fencer from Daniel Woolfolk on Vimeo.

June 4, 2010- Becoming Columbia University Student Athlete of the Month is quite an honor. It is also a feat Nicole Ross, a fencer and Upper West Side native, has earned twice in 2010.

In March, she became the National Collegiate Athletic Association fencing champion in the foil, her competition weapon. Last year, at the 2009 Junior World Fencing Championships in Belfast, Ross helped the United States team’s first world win in her event, women’s foil fencing. “It was super exciting and gratifying for me,” said Ross, who will be fencing at the New York World Cup of Fencing June 18-20.

Ross graduated from Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on West 93rd Street.

Yes, Aries usually does wear shades. (iPhone photo shot with Shake It Photo application.)

Today, I turned in my Master’s Project, which is Columbia Journalism School’s version of a thesis: a 5,000 word magazine piece. Mine was on Aries, a service dog that helps his owner deal with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Because I’ve been doing so much writing at school, I haven’t shot photos for this or other stories. I’ll probably shoot towards the end of the semester, but, for right now, I’m focusing on getting the most of my writing instruction at Columbia.  Graduation is in May.

In one day, Panaderia Caotzingo bakery produces 270 pieces of pan de muerto, Spanish for "bread of the dead."

Nushin Rashidian and I recently spent an evening at a Mexican bakery in Queens preparing for The Day of the Dead. Check out our story at nyfoodchain.com.

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch is back to work at his Manhattan office near Times Square after undergoing a quadruple bypass surgery in June. (Photo: Daniel Woolfolk)

My friend Joel Meares and I interviewed former Mayor Ed Koch in his Manhattan office for a story on eating on the campaign trail for nyfoodchain.com. The Huffington Post picked it up as did the Columbia Journalist. It’s got another portrait.