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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ray Lake drinks water out of a tennis ball can. He’s been doing this for years. He pops the top, empties out the three yellow balls, and fills the can at an Igloo cooler that’s stationed between the indoor courts…

DALLAS — At 104 years old, Rhea Wolfram still considers herself active.“Life is to be lived,” she said. “Even though it’s painful sometimes, it’s what kept me going.”Wolfram, who turned 104 Wednesday, has worn many hats over the…

Home health care provides a beneficial alternative to living in an assisted living home, enabling people to age in place. Who are the best candidates to benefit from home health care, and what type of services are typically provided…

One hundred eleven years after the RMS Titanic plunged beneath the waters of the North Atlantic 700 nautical miles east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Holland America Line’s Rotterdam VII made an unscheduled stop at the exact location for…

SAN DIEGO — Ana Celia Zentella is well-known and regarded in linguistics for an extensive body of work researching language, its varieties (especially within Spanish among Latino communities in the United States), and the ways that…

When I first contacted the Cool Grandpa, he was in North Carolina doing what lots of cool grandpas do — attending his granddaughter’s first birthday party. We set up time to talk once the festivities were over and he had arrived back…

TAMPA, Fla. -- They bonded over a shared love of small business and baseball games in their quiet Iowa town.They moved south together, married in Central Park as soon as they could and spent countless nights in Clearwater with…

Nothing prepared Linda C. Johnson of Indianapolis for the fatigue that descended on her after a diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer in early 2020.Initially, Johnson, now 77, thought she was depressed. She could barely summon the energy…

When you're 40, 70 seems old. When you get there, not so much, and I'm closing in fast.So when a reader complained that since Jan. 1, California drivers 70 and older have had to take a written test and an eye exam at a Department of…

ST. PAUL, Minn. — There were four generations of Gordon Kirks at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Paul on Sunday morning.The eldest Gordon Kirk celebrated his 100th birthday last week, and his grandson, great-grandson and…