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‘This Old House’ star from Massachusetts dies at 70


‘This Old House’ star from Massachusetts dies at 70

Roger Cook, a longtime landscaper on the popular PBS show “This Old House,” died Wednesday, Aug. 21, after a long battle with illness, according to a post on the show’s website. He was 70. Cook’s time with TOH began with the show in 1982 and lasted nearly 40 years. Cook’s notable projects include the “Bigelow […]

Dear Abby: You are generally good neighbors, but your children are out of control


Dear Abby: You are generally good neighbors, but your children are out of control

DEAR ABBY: I live in a small, semi-rural neighborhood. My neighbors have not disciplined their children, and now they are teenagers. Six months ago I caught the younger one trying to climb my chain link fence, and last year I caught him trying to climb the gate to the fence to my front yard. This […]

Oldest person in the world, Maria Branyas Morera, dies


Oldest person in the world, Maria Branyas Morera, dies

CATALONIA, Spain – Maria Branyas Morera, the world’s oldest person, has died at the age of 117, according to Guinness World Records. Her family announced her death on Tuesday on the social media platform X. “Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wanted: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” the post said. […]