It’s always unsettling to find a broken car window, whether it happened because of an accident, vandalism, or weather.

The porch camera confirmed it. Laura Brache's car hadn't been broken into. One minute the front left window was there, the next it wasn't. The only bright side for Brache, an audience growth producer ...

This is the first in the occasional “House Hell” series: Our homes are our most precious and scary possessions — precious only when they do not threaten us — but the threats are never-ending. What ...