CHICAGO (AP) — Jimmy Carter is the latest example that very old age is no longer an automatic barrier for aggressive therapies. That includes treatment like the 91-year-old former president has been getting for cancer. It also includes major heart procedures, joint replacements and even some organ transplants. Doctors say many of the nation’s most…
BOSTON (AP) — The highest court in Massachusetts is being asked to decide if a judge violated the constitutional rights of a landlord when he ordered her to take a course on Islam after she was convicted of pushing her Muslim tenant down a flight of stairs. The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments Jan.…
PERRYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A longtime Missouri elected official who was convicted of swindling an elderly woman out of more than $80,000 says he plans to keep his job after being sentenced to two seven-year prison terms. Perry County Coroner Herbert Miller’s sentence was suspended Friday and he was placed on five years of probation.…