Given the unprecedented rise in the cost of fuel, home care agencies are struggling to provide services to Medicaid and Medicare home care patients in rural hard-to-serve areas. Home care agencies are finding it difficult to pay workers for the increased cost of fuel needed to visit rural patients, and some workers are leaving for [...]
Last Monday The Wall Street Journal kicked off a debate on how best to allocate scarce resources to solve the world’s problems. Bjorn Lomborg offered a summary of the latest findings from his Copenhagen Consensus project, where he has enlisted some of the world’s top economists to address the issue. Over the next few Mondays [...]
A man, beaten bloody in his home while robbers took his computer and cell phone; a gun held to a small child’s head during another robbery; a woman tied up with T-shirts in her own apartment before being robbed.
The descriptions sound like scenes from a TV crime drama, but they are from police reports documenting [...]
A recent discussion of West Warwick’s Home Rule Charter wasn’t quite as focused as planned, according to the town council president.
Despite other business, however, the council did make some progress, Giroux said. Three major discussions took place in regard to potential charter changes involving council term lengths, the vote process for hiring and firing town [...]
Home builders Hovnanian Enterprises and Toll Brothers Inc. have had a tough week, reporting quarterly losses amid the suburban housing slump. But home builder Lennar Corp. was granted a gift from San Francisco voters on Tuesday night.
City voters soundly supported a measure that will allow the Miami-based builder to develop a sprawling, 770-acre property into [...]
Texas child welfare officials Friday agreed to return some of the more than 450 children, taken from a West Texas polygamist ranch, to their home in three days.
The children were taken to Austin from the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado seven weeks ago to prevent possibly sexually abusive marriages of young girls to older [...]
It will be a battle of the well-rested against the well-situated when the Memorial Cup gets decided Sunday in Kitchener, Ont.
Tuesday, the Chiefs clinched their spot in today’s final by defeating the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champion Gatineau Olympiques, 3-1.
By the time the puck drops Sunday afternoon at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, the Chiefs [...]
Surprise police are searching for three people who reportedly broke into a home early Saturday morning and held a man at gunpoint while they stole items from the residence.
The victim said he was awoken by three intruders inside his home in the 15900 block of Mountain Vista Ranch Boulevard about 2:30 a.m., said Surprise Lt. [...]
Gao Ping’s arms are still bruised and scratched from scrambling over boulder-strewn roads and dodging rain-slick landslides.
The 43-year-old migrant worker wasn’t here when the earthquake struck on May 12. Instead, he is one of millions who had left their hometowns for better jobs in their country’s white-hot economy, only to race back on a wrenching [...]
Goalie Marty Turco believes a return to American Airlines Center for Game 3 of the Western Conference finals should be inspiring for the Stars.
Turco said the Stars, who trail the Detroit Red Wings, 2-0, in the best-of-7 series, look forward to soaking up the aura that’s left over from the four-overtime Game 6 victory that [...]