FRONT PAGE: Sgt. Cara Rothe hugs her son Ryan Rothe, a freshman at Benjamin Logan High School, at lunchtime Thursday in the school’s cafeteria. Sgt. Rothe surprised Ryan and another son, seventh-grader Ross Harrison, above left, upon her return home from deployment since January in the Middle East. A member of the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Sgt. Rothe's unit — a signal company — was stationed in Kuwait and Bahrain, where it had been providing security at Isa Air Base since April. (EXAMINER PHOTOS | T.J. HUBBARD)