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A stepdaughter of a woman who survived six days in her snowbound SUV in Northern California says she suffers from dementia.

An HIV-awareness campaign featuring condom wrappers with cheeky slogans that put a sexy spin on state pride met a quick end in Utah as the governor ordered the health department to stop distributing them.

The Avengers may have gained a canine sidekick after a North Carolina family’s dog gave birth to a bright green puppy named “Hulk.”

A Florida woman who fed vultures, alligators and other wildlife behind her gated-community home has agreed to pay $53,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by homeowners association.

German lawmakers on Thursday rejected a proposal that would have made most people potential organ donors unless they objected, instead backing a less radical plan to tackle a shortage of donor organs.

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Recent sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

I won’t go into specifics, but she isn’t quite ready to date and wants to work through her issues.

A Chinese visitor to Thailand has been confirmed to be infected with a new strain of coronavirus that has been linked to a pneumonia outbreak in central China, health officials said Monday.

More than 350 guests attended the opening reception, which featured pours from around the world.

Authorities on Thursday were on the hunt for coyotes in downtown Chicago after police said a 5-year-old boy was bitten in the head by one such animal and a man went to a hospital with a wound he said came from one.

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Recent sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

Advice from Amy Dickinson.

Am I settling? Does it matter? He feels like home and family to me.

Soldiers and health workers sprayed Indonesia’s capital with disinfectant on Sunday to fend off possible diseases spread by massive flooding that has killed 60 people and affected hundreds of thousands.

The number of cases of a new type of viral pneumonia linked to a food market in central China has risen to 44, local health authorities said Friday, in an outbreak awakening fearful memories of the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic.

Advice from Amy Dickinson.

Advice from Amy Dickinson.

In a study with monkeys, injecting the vaccine straight into the bloodstream dramatically improved its effectiveness over today’s skin-deep shot, researchers reported Wednesday.

Advice from Amy Dickinson.

I really enjoyed our time together, and I’m fairly certain the feeling was mutual – but I don’t want to be presumptuous by deciding to reach out in an attempt to reconnect.

As a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would “immediately” replace President Barack Obama’s health care law with a plan of his own that would provide “insurance for everybody.”

I just call them ‘‘holiday’’ cactuses because they rarely bloom on their assigned holidays unless given a lot of manipulation. | realestate.boston.com

Advice from Amy Dickinson.

Advice from Amy Dickinson.

Advice from Amy Dickinson.

A new cafe culture is brewing in the San Francisco area, where a growing number of coffee houses are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to rental mugs and BYO cup policies.

Rwanda seeks to address one of the world’s great inequities: As thousands die from addiction in rich countries awash with prescription painkillers, millions of people in the poorest nations have no access to opioids.

A Mississippi man searching for his missing dog was left an anonymous note that said his dog had been killed and that he should abide by the county leash law.

It took a blaze that nearly destroyed Paris’s most famous cathedral to reveal a gap in global safety regulations for lead, a toxic building material found across many historic cities.

The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog found no wrongdoing or misconduct by immigration officials in the deaths of two migrant children last December.

The California winemakers who hosted a dinner at a “wine cave” for Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg are defending the fundraising event.

A group of Pakistani doctors blamed a recent outbreak of HIV among children in a southern city on poor healthcare practices such as using dirty needles and contaminated blood, according to a statement released Friday.

I hate not knowing what to do with myself and how to approach seeing him over the holidays.

Gunmen in Pakistan shot and killed two policemen on Wednesday who were part of the most recent anti-polio drive in the country’s rugged and volatile northwest, officials said.

New Jersey’s Assembly on Monday passed a measure to eliminate religious exemptions for vaccines for schoolchildren, but the bill stalled in the state Senate as opponents shouted so loudly they drowned out the session.

During the first couple months, he was seeing another girl who works in the department, but she broke up with him, leaving him hesitant about dating another co-worker (he has told me this).

The final two months of Cachin Anderson’s life in New York’s prison system were filled with warnings he was a man in crisis.

Mississippi’s outgoing governor vowed Saturday to ask the Supreme Court to uphold that state’s ban on abortion at 15 weeks, a day after a federal appeals court ruled that it was unconstitutional.

Women who use certain types of hormones after menopause still have an increased risk of developing breast cancer nearly two decades after they stop taking the pills, long-term results from a big federal study suggest.

Tori Costa took up quilting decades ago, but eventually realized she didn’t have the “time or patience or space for it.” A year and a half ago, however, she picked it back up again, focusing on smaller pieces.

As a New Zealand island volcano vented more steam and mud, authorities delayed plans to recover the bodies of victims from a deadly eruption and announced Thursday that the death toll rose after two people who had been hospitalized died.

The disgraced entertainer lost his bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday, as an appeals court upheld the verdict in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.

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