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News from Contra Costa County Meals on Wheels and Senior Outreach Services : When Meals on Wheels and Senior Outreach Services modifies a home, it cuts the chances of a senior calling 9-1-1 for a fall by about 53 percent, according to new data compiled by American Medical Response for their service areas in Contra Costa County.

Joseph Rudolph Wood was strapped to a gurney in an orange jumpsuit as prison medical staff prepared to set intravenous lines in his arms.

The streets of Brandon are meaner lately - according to statistics that show the city's crime has grown more violent, even as the number of crimes reported to police dropped.

Haris Suleman knew that flying around the world carried risks. But like adventurers before him, the 17-year-old pilot from Indiana also believed dreams aren't achieved without taking chances.

"No," Gov. Rick Perry said he has not heard from President Obama, since Obama met with him two weeks ago during a fundraising trip to Texas.

Using tunnels, mines, booby traps and snipers, Hamas fighters have inflicted record casualties on Israeli troops waging an offensive in the Gaza Strip, applying years of training in urban warfare with a new tactical acumen and suicidal resolve.

Women make up fewer than 2% of the inmates sentenced to die on death row in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center .

Former Bell City Councilman George Cole was sentenced today to five years probation, 180 days of home confinement and 1,000 hours of community service for bilking public funds by receiving inflated salaries for sitting on city boards that rarely met.

Athens-Clarke County police have issued a lookout for one of two gunmen who robbed a Prince Avenue restaurant last week, pistol-whipping the manager and forcing him into a freezer.

Indonesian presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo gestures as delivers a speech, beside his running mate Jusuf Kalla, on a phinisi boat, a traditional Indonesian ship, at Sunda Kelapa port after he was declared the winner of the presidential elec Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was declared the winner of Indonesia's presidential election on Tuesday, ... (more)

Over the past two months, I have toured the Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, and the Department of Health and Human Services facility at Lackland Air Force Base where immigrant children without legal status are being processed.

Florida Libertarian candidate for governor Adrian Wyllie draws 9 percent support and makes the race between Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democratic frontrunner Charlie Crist too close to call, a new Quinnipiac University poll says.

Is it any wonder the ponderous freight trains laden with crude oil are the source of continuing concern for residents at the Ezra Prentice Homes in Albany, and elsewhere along the rails in the Capital Region and the state? Residents still do not have a satisfactory answer for how officials will keep a disaster like the one last year in ... (more)

Garner native and author Robert Louis Shepard will be present his new book,"Fulfilling My Destiny, Step By Step – An Autobiography" from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at 5th Avenue Coffee Café, 1350 5th Ave., #250, Garner.

In less than two weeks, Gresham will turn into Swingtown for two days when the Mt.

Iraq Now And In The Future, an exciting post show talk, has been scheduled to run in conjunction with The Nightmares Of Carlos Fuentes, at the Arcola Theatre, on Thursday 24 July at 9.00pm.

Melissa Myrick is photographed with her niece, 4-year-old Ariana Ashbrook, at their home in Fenton, Mo., on Friday, July 11, 2014.

I blogged over the weekend about the Ninth Circuit's puzzling new case stopping an execution to allow for First Amendment litigation over right to access the details of how the execution will be carried out.

The 25th annual Kids Count report from the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation ranked Arkansas 41st in 16 indicators across four areas: economic well-being, education, health and family and community.

The mother of a woman sexually assaulted and killed by members of her husband's Marine unit testified today that she last spoke with her daughter the night of her death, and everything appeared to be fine before they ended the conversation.