On a fall morning in East L.A. in 1974, Dolores Madrigal and her husband, Orencio, ate breakfast while listening to ranchera radio station KWKW when a news segment aired that would change her life.

Dolores Madrigal can hear a whole chorus from a mile away. What’s really surprising, though, is that she has a way of hearing (and being next to) seemingly everything. Here’s what we know about this ...

A woman at the center of a landmark lawsuit on reproductive rights has died. Dolores Madrigal was 39 years old in the early 1970s when she was sterilized by the doctors who had just delivered her baby ...