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2 hrs ago | KSDK NewsChannel 5

Nuns upset about potential 'Get It' strip club location

The Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo and their Stone Park neighbors say the club should be built somewhere else.

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Related Topix: Family

6 hrs ago | Media Matters for America

A Thinly Veiled Attack On Social Security And Medicare From Heritage And Its Allies

Yesterday Heritage released an "Index of Dependence on Government" report. Fox and others in the conservative media trumpeted the report.

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Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Medicare, Health, Family, US News, Liberal Political News

Thu Feb 09, 2012

LoHud

Troopers: Mahopac woman spent $23G with stolen ID of Somers senior citizen

To hear Dori Berinstein tell it, all she had to do was mention that she was making a film about... SOMERS - A Mahopac woman with a history of scamming people has been charged with stealing the identity of an 86-year-old Somers woman and using it to ring up more than $23,000 in unauthorized credit card charges, state police said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Somers, NY, Family, Mahopac, NY, Westchester County, NY, White Plains, NY

Eastern Daily Press

Former Thorpe St Andrew landlady dies aged 96

Readers of a certain age will remember Beryl Firman, who has sadly died aged 96, as the former landlady at the Red Lion in Thorpe St Andrew.

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Related Topix: Norfolk County, England, United Kingdom, World News, Family

KABC LA

Elderly man killed in Fontana hit-and-run

A search is under way for a hit-and-run driver who mowed down an elderly man in the 8500 block of Calabash Avenue near Fontana on Wednesday, Feb.

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Related Topix: Fontana, CA, Family

WDAF

Police Find the Body of Missing Elderly Kansas Man

KINGMAN, Kan. - Authorities in Kansas say they found the body of a missing 89-year old man with dementia who disappeared Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Family, Kingman, KS

The Piqua Daily Call

Letter to Editor

Grand Obstructionist Party is running on is the privatization of Social Security and elimination of Medicaid, Medicare, as we know it.

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Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Medicare, Medicaid, Health, Family, Retirement

KOMO News

Elderly Burien couple say their son swindled them out of a home

BURIEN, Wash. -- An elderly Burien couple is claiming their own son took advantage of them, took their money and thew them out of their home.

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Related Topix: Family, Burien, WA

Wed Feb 08, 2012

Patch.com

Woman Pleads No Contest to Killing Elderly Pedestrian

The woman accused of fatally striking an elderly Los Angeles man last year as he crossed a Santa Monica street was ordered to 360 hours of community service Wednesday after pleading "no contest" to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter.

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Related Topix: Family, Los Angeles, CA, Pacific-Palisades, CA, Criminal Defense Law, Law

National Post

No financial reason to change old-age pension system: budget watchdog

The Old Age Security program in Canada can responsibly carry on its current path - with a retirement age of 65 - according to the country's parliamentary budget officer, who said any potential changes to the system likely would be unrelated to financial issues.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Pension, Personal Finance, Family

York Dispatch

Lawsuit filed over denial of senior's home care

A health insurer is being sued for refusing to pay claims for in-home care submitted by California senior citizens.

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Related Topix: Family, Upland, PA

Jerusalem Post

'25% of elderly forgo heating for financial reasons'

More than a quarter of elderly people are not able to heat their homes during the winter months, a survey commissioned last week by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has revealed.

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Related Topix: Family

WSTC-AM Norwalk

Elderly Kansas man with dementia is missing

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has issued a Silver Alert for an 89-year-old Kingman man who hasn't been seen since driving away from his home.

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Related Topix: Family

The Tennessean

DA decides against charges in beating death of elderly assisted living center resident

Dorothy Reeder says she's 'hurt' by the decision to not file charges in her husband's death.

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Related Topix: Family, Tennessee

Polk County Democrat

Obama wants to boost Alzheimer's research funding

With the president preparing to unveil his final budget proposal before the November election, the Obama administration announced plans Tuesday to dramatically boost funding for research into Alzheimer's disease.

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Related Topix: Alzheimer's, Health, Family

Tue Feb 07, 2012

Charleston Daily Mail

Elderly man found dead one day after tearful testimony

A Charleston senior citizen who told a jury he was forced to give a man thousands of dollars died Tuesday, a day after giving his tearful testimony.

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Related Topix: Family, Criminal Defense Law, Law

KXII-TV Sherman

Trial date set in elderly Hugo woman's murder

A trial date has been set for the man accused of robbing and killing an elderly woman inside her Hugo home last summer.

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Related Topix: Family, Weather, Ardmore, OK

Boston.com

Appeals court: Seniors can't reject Medicare right

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that seniors who receive Social Security cannot reject their legal right to Medicare benefits, in a rare case of Americans suing to get out of a government entitlement.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health, Social Security, Personal Finance, Family, Texas

Burlington Times News

Man pleads guilty to cheating elderly woman out of $150,000

Calling it a "heinous crime," a superior court judge sent a Burlington man to prison after he pleaded guilty to cheating an elderly woman out of nearly $150,000. The woman - who continued to work a job into her eighties, before her health began to fail - is now 82, in a nursing home and on the verge of losing the property she and her husband owned ... (more)

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Related Topix: Family, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Burlington, NC, Alamance County, NC

CBS Atlanta

10 amazing benefits Of Tai Chi for the elderly

Tai Chi is an ancient healing art that has been used for centuries to help promote the flow of energy throughout the body.

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Related Topix: Family, Depression, Health, Arthritis

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