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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a Florida county with a startling rate of child firearm injuries, a boarded-up elementary school named for famed educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune sits in a 250-acre site once...Read more

DEAR ABBY: We live 500 miles from our nearest relatives, but a niece is attending a university about 50 miles away. We invite her to join us for holidays and weekends, and sometimes she asks to visit to escape from ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: Is inner peace really attainable? I look for it every daily but struggle to find it. – F.P.

A: Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — A Catholic bishop from the Bay Area is calling a recent meeting with President Donald Trump that he attended with 11 other bishops “helpful and constructive,” even as two other bishops let their ...Read more

When Ashley Porter began slurring her speech one October day four years ago, doctors suspected a stroke. A spinal tap, an MRI, dozens of blood draws, another MRI, and a night spent at the hospital were followed, finally, ...Read more

Millions of Medicare enrollees who buy stand-alone prescription drug plans will see their average monthly premiums rise by 50% in 2027, a new analysis finds.

But enrollees can avoid the average increase — from $34 a ...Read more

The Florida Department of Health held a hearing in October 2026 on a proposal to remove four vaccine requirements for entry into school and childcare: Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, chickenpox, pneumococcal and ...Read more

Costs are soaring for people who care for their older parents and other family members, according to a new study.

Out-of-pocket expenses are nearly 60% higher than they were just five years ago for family caregivers, who ...Read more

It’s harvest season in our small farming community. Rush-hour traffic around here is getting caught behind a truck hauling crops out of a field. It may also involve dodging a stray sugar beet, bean stalk or ear of corn ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I'm 78, and my husband is 79. This past year, he lost $500,000 through a fraudulent bitcoin site. Fortunately, we have $500,000 left, but I'm so angry about this, you can't imagine -- all of my hard-earned ...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: Over the years, I've taken a variety of statins. It seems that eventually, I always get bad leg problems with many aches and pains. Various doctors just change the kind of statin I take, but the same ...Read more

Around 50% of Americans are trying to eat a healthier diet (I hope it hits 100% one day!). Almost that many meet the guidelines for aerobic activity. But those folks may not get the benefits that healthy nutrition and ...Read more

Public health officials have confirmed 80 cases of measles in Minnesota so far this year — the highest total in 36 years for the highly infectious but vaccine-preventable disease.

The surge is largely because of an ...Read more

PAGE, Ariz. — Doug Herrera still lives in the house his father built, though his dad died some time ago from cancer. Herrera wonders if that illness could have been linked to pollutants from nearby uranium mining. Now, ...Read more

CREVE COEUR, Mo. — Reneé Luckfield tries not to knock like a cop.

In fact, the 29-year-old spends a lot of time thinking about how to make strangers comfortable when she shows up at their door to talk about transgender...Read more

MERIDIAN, Idaho — It didn’t take long for doctors to see that something was amiss with Rebecca Crozier’s pregnancy.

At her eight-week ultrasound in 2025, they mentioned a possible neural tube defect, she said, but ...Read more

On Oct. 11, the first day of Navaratri, my family and I were worshipping at our Hindu temple in Aurora. My 80-year-old mother and 87-year-old father were singing Hindu prayers to celebrate one of the most important ...Read more

Federal regulators are cracking down on the nonprofits responsible for coordinating organ donations, aiming to begin shutting down substandard groups by early next year.

New criteria will score the organizations on ...Read more

Q: When your readers write about ghosts I always mean to send you my experiences but seem to forget to do so until Halloween approaches.

I had a special bond with my father who passed away in ...Read more