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  • Elderly Vancouver man dragged by car after thief takes off with his jewelry

    Police are still searching for a suspect who robbed an elderly man and dragged him with a car for about a block. Around 12:30 p.m. Monday, a 61-year-old left a store on East Broadway after purchasing jewelry. He was walking north on Quebec Street when a suspect came up behind him, grabbed the bag of jewelry and ran into a waiting a ...

  • Children dying from encephalitis in India

    A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what officials worry could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade. Encephalitis has killed at least 118 children so far this year and authorities fear the death toll could reach about 1,000, said Dr R. N. Singh of the Encephalitis ...

  • YMCA offers to build operate four Lexington senior citizens centers

    As Lexington plans to build a new senior citizens center, the YMCA of Central Kentucky proposed on Tuesday a partnership in which the YMCA would build and operate four senior center facilities attached to YMCA locations in Fayette County.David Martorano, president and CEO of YMCA of Central Kentucky, told the Urban County Council's social services and community development committee that ...

  • Lexington woman is accused of leaving elderly man in filthy home

    A 73-year-old Lexington woman was jailed Tuesday because police say she left an elderly man under her care in a filthy home.Julia Polsgrove was charged with one count of knowingly abusing or neglecting an adult and was being held in the Fayette County Detention Center.The home on Kilkenny Court was littered with filth and animal feces and was condemned, city spokeswoman Susan Straub ...

  • Oklahoma executes man convicted of killing elderly couple

    OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma executed on Tuesday a man who was convicted of stabbing an elderly couple to death during a robbery at their home that netted $73, some of which he and convicted accomplices used to buy ...

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Airplane II: The Sequel [DVD]

Airplane II: The Sequel [DVD]

Having already honed and perfected their unique brand of guerilla comedy in their long-running Kentucky Fried Theater and 1977's The Kentucky Fried Movie (which was directed by John Landis), it was finally time for the ZAZ team (brothers David and Jerry Zucker and their childhood friend Jim Abrahams) to make their own feature-length movie. The possibility of pulling it off seemed slim, ... ...

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  • Gender Ministry to establish Aging Desk

    Accra, June 18, GNA - The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection would soon create Aging Desks in districts across the country to ensure the social and cultural reintegration of the elderly into the mainstream ...

  • Radio programmes that address global issues honoured by UNNew York Festivals Awards

    18 June 2013 &#150 A message of hope from a boy on the war-torn streets of Kabul, a profile of Danish efforts to help the elderly live the way they choose and an investigative story on the cruel reality of human trafficking are the winners of this year’s awards for outstanding radio programming presented by the United Nations as part of the 2013 New York Festivals Awards. ...

  • Elderly man’s beloved bike that he rode across the country stolen from his garage

    An epic trip across the country on a bike brings back memories for an elderly Burnaby man — but the 10-speed that helps remind him of the journey was stolen from his ...

  • Boy 16 suspected of killing elderly Davis couple

    DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Police in Northern California say they have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of killing an 87-year-old attorney and his ...

  • “Does that worry you about newspapers dying”

    IC: Is there a story that you are most proud of? JH: I think of us more in terms of reporters and our young staff, and I think about that in terms of the broader business. It's crumbling! Carrie Budoff Brown came to us from the Philly Inquirer. It was a shell. The Washington Post is still a strong newspaper, but no one there would say it is providing the number of opportunities for young ...

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