Mar. 16, 2025
If you’re planning aMemorial Day cookoutthis weekend, make sure to double check your meat.On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Serviceannouncedthat it was recalling over 62,000 pounds of raw beef due to E. coli concerns.The recalled meat was packaged at the Aurora Packing Company in North Aurora, Illinois on April 19 and was then shipped nationwide.All of the recalled products have the establishment number “EST. 788” inside the USDA mark of inspection.
Mar. 16, 2025
Melodye Hirsch-Wintemute and Ileane Hirsch-Nielsen love being identical twins. But at age 62, theirfaces were changingand they missed being able to shock people with their matching looks.“It feels strange not to look alike,” Ileane saidon a November episode ofThe Doctors.“We want to stay the same.”Melodye is extremely active, but felt herface didn’t match her fit body.“Overall fitness-wise, I feel like I look pretty good for this old lady, but when I look in the mirror I just see the droopy jowels, and I see the wrinkles and the discoloration of my skin, and it’s just not how I feel,” she said.
Mar. 16, 2025
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A local prosecutor has filed 63 felony charges against three employees of a Missouri duck boat company following a July 2018 accident that killed 17 people.
A Stone County prosecutorhas chargedboat captain Kenneth Scott McKee, general manager Curtis Lanham, and the manager who was on duty the day of the accident, Charles Baltzell, the Associated Press reported. The announcement comes months after a federal judge initiallydropped charges against the men, determining that federal prosecutors had no jurisdiction.
Mar. 16, 2025
Debbie Blount isn’t giving up on her dreams.
Getting a college degree was always on her bucket list, and golf became her passion when she began playing at 33 with her late husband Ben, whom she wed in 1991.
“He was a golfer, and I said, ‘I think I’d like to try it. It’s something we could do together,’ " she recalled. “And that’s where this ball started rolling.”
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Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: Courtesy of Julie Karant, 32BJ SEIUJust a few months ago, Donna Kelly didn’t think that this would be her life: applying for food stamps and returning to Medicaid.But the 63-year-old single great-grandmother was especially vulnerable to the ongoing federal government shutdown, which affects some 800,000 workers. Kelly, from Washington, D.C., works as a full-time security guard for the now-shuttered Smithsonian, making little more than minimum wage as a contract worker.