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Gwyneth Paltrow's ski slope collision left a man living as a self-imposed recluse, a US court has heard.Terry Sanderson said he was living another life following the incident which left him with broken ribs and brain injuries.Retired optometrist Mr Sanderson is suing the Oscar-winning actress over the collision at the Deer Valley resort in Utah in 2016, alleging she fell on top of him, leaving him with several broken ribs and a severe concussion.

A man who collided with Gwyneth Paltrow on a ski slope says he is living another life following the incident, which left him with severe injuries.Terry Sanderson said he had been told he should not ski again following the crash, which had caused the breakdown of his mental health and relationships.Retired optometrist Mr Sanderson is suing the Oscar-winning actress over the collision at the Deer Valley resort in Utah in 2016, alleging she fell on top of him, leaving him with several broken ribs and a severe concussion.

A Pennsylvania woman who went missing more than 30 years ago and whose family believed she was dead has been found alive in Puerto Rico, resolving a decades-long mystery, the authorities said on Friday.The woman, Patricia Kopta, now 83, was found on the island after she shared tidbits about her past to nursing home employees who had been taking care of her for years, Chief Brian Kohlhepp of the Ross Township Police Department said at a news conference.

After her mother died, an Iowa woman got a letter saying she owed more than $200,000 to the state Medicaid program.But she didn't even know her mom had been on the health insurance program.AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Medicaid is often described as health insurance for low-income Americans.But Medicaid covers a lot of middle-class Americans, especially when they need long-term care in their later years.

In the years before losing his memory, Jose Arevalo, 83, would still dedicate some of his favorite norteño melodies to his wife."La Prieta Linda," said his wife, Berta Ruiz, 64, with a soft smile."The pretty dark-skinned girl."Though Arevalo - or Don Lupe, as most call him - lost his memory through the years, he never forgot her: the woman he met nearly 50 years ago and the one who took care of him through the good and bad times.

Former Army Sgt.Joel Gomez, whose story inspired his hometown to rally behind him, died Tuesdayfrom complications related to the catastrophic injuries he suffered in the Iraq War.Gomez, a 42-year-old Wheaton native, experienced kidney trouble after being diagnosed with pneumonia in his left lung earlier this month.

Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years.Each Sunday, we dive into the Dear Prudie archives and share a selection of classic letters with our readers.Join Dear Prudence, for even more advice columns.Four years ago, my sweet and loving husband, the awesome father of our three children, was struck down by brain cancer and suffered brain trauma following emergency surgery.

A woman born months after the end of the First World War is selling her house in Somerset after living there for 102 years, an estate agent has said.Nancy Joan Gifford is putting her three-bedroom house on the market having lived in it through the Second World War, the invention of television and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, according to Somerset-based estate agent Holland and Odam.

Red shirts came through for Tony Stacey Centre for Veterans Care last month, as one Scarborough institution helped another.Corrections officers at the Toronto East Detention Centre have worn red T-shirts under their uniforms on Fridays for about 15 years as a sign of respect for Canada's military.For the first time, Toronto East officers sold shirts to raise money and turned that into their most successful effort ever for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union's annual Corrections Cares campaign, Jason Mushynski, president of OPSEU Local 582 says.

On Saturday, the Carter Center announced that former US President Jimmy Carter will be receiving hospice care at his home in Georgia.After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention, according to the statement.

Two world wars and two pandemics are just a few of the many historic events witnessed by Sister Andre during her 118 years.Born Lucile Randon on 11 February 1904 in Ales, the world's oldest person has passed away in her sleep just a few weeks short of her 119th birthday.The only daughter in a Protestant family with three brothers, the year of her birth saw the opening of New York's first subway line, the beginning of work on the Panama Canal and the signing of the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France.

Sister Andre, a French nun and the world's oldest known person, who lived through two world wars and the 1918 influenza pandemic and survived Covid-19, died on Tuesday in France.She was 118.A spokesman for a nursing home in the southern city of Toulon, where Sister Andre was residing, confirmed the death in an interview with French news media.

Glen Lockett, the influential record producer who, working under the name Spot, helped define the jet-turbine sound of American punk rock in the 1980s, recording groundbreaking albums by Black Flag, Husker Du, Minutemen and many others, died on March 4 in Sheboygan, Wis.He was 71.His death, in a nursing home, was announced in a Facebook post by Joe Carducci, a former co-owner of SST Records, the iconoclastic Hermosa Beach, Calif., label where Mr. Lockett made his name.

A viral TikTok, which has 3.6 million likes as of March 7, has finally caught the attention of Rihanna and Jay-Z.In the short video shared on Feb. 22, a group of women from Arcadia Senior Living Bowling Green in Kentucky recreated part of Rihanna's set from her Feb. 12 Super Bowl Halftime Show.The TikTok shows the women - dressed in white like Rihanna's backup dancers and one resident decked in red like Rih's Super Bowl outfit - performing the viral "Rude Boy" portion of the halftime show and capturing the internet's collective heart in the process.

Sister Andre poses for a portrait at the Sainte Catherine Laboure care home in Toulon, southern France, Wednesday, April 27, 2022.The French nun who was believed to be the world's oldest person died at 118 in her sleep early Tuesday Jan.17, 2023, the spokesperson for her nursing home in Toulon, David Tavella, said Wednesday.

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing an opinion piece by Phineas Harper that argues "cities should not just build green transport but actively dismantle car infrastructure".
Harper suggests that instead of desperately trying to reduce road congestion in the short term, politicians should be using traffic as a tool for making urban transport more sustainable.

A French nun who was believed to be the world's oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, the spokesperson for her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday.Lucile Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904.She was also one of the world's oldest survivors of COVID-19.

When Amazon released Alexa in 2014, the company had big dreams for the technology.The voice assistant, the company suggested, could succeed smartphones as the next essential consumer interface.Alexa, which was embedded in Amazon's voice-activated Echo smart speakers, soon became one of the most popular voice assistants, alongside Apple's Siri and Google's Assistant.

A woman was pronounced dead at the Water's Edge Rehab and Nursing Center in Port Jefferson, N.Y. but hours later, workers at a funeral home discovered she was alive and breathing.Google Maps/Screenshot by NPR Workers at a nursing home on Long Island, N.Y., pronounced an 82-year-old woman dead on Saturday but nearly three hours later, staff at a funeral home discovered the woman was still alive and breathing.

The world's oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, a spokesperson has said.Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in southern France on 11 February 1904, when the first world war was still a decade away.She died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon, spokesperson David Tavella said on Tuesday.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Princess of Wales has arrived at a nursing home to discover how the family-run business is caring for the elderly.Kate has made improving the experiences of the very young, through her early years work, her focus but will learn how those at the end of their lives are supported at the Oxford House Nursing Home.

The Princess of Wales has joked her children may boycott her pancakes after she branded her attempts at a Shrove Tuesday treat as unfit to eat.Kate laughed as she struggled to free the batter mix from a frying pan, but successfully tossed it when she joined residents from a nursing home enjoying the annual event.