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In cities across America, people tolerate distressed living conditions because they have no other option. In New York City, for example, the housing shortage reached a crisis point in 2014 after decades of neglect and insufficient funding. A historic lack of preservation and investment in infrastructure in housing across New York has had dire effects

A university in Connecticut is mourning the death of a 20-year-old student who died Sunday after apparently choking in a pancake-eating contest. A nursing student tried to save Caitlin Nelson, a junior who was a member of the Kappa Delta sorority at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, when she showed signs of medical distress after

Bob Ross was an American professional painter, Television show host and art instructor who was born on October 29, 1942 and gave up the ghost on July 4, 1995. Ross got married three times each time ending in divorce and having two children, a child he fathered from a relationship he had as a teenager,

Craig Ferguson was born in Springburn, Scotland on May 17, 1962. Comedian and late-night talk host who was born in Scotland. He won a Peabody Award for his late-night talk show, The Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He starred with Marie Osmond in Maybe This Time. He dropped out of high school and found work

End-of-life counseling sessions, once decried by some conservative Republicans as death panels, gained steam among Medicare patients in 2016, the first year doctors could charge the federal program for the service.