Two water-damaged New American Bibles sat this week near the Christmas tree and a warm hearth in Lillian and Ernesto Parra’s temporary home in Pasco. The Bibles that have been in the family for nearly 40 years are among the few possessions the elderly couple managed to salvage after an arsonist torched their house in […]
David Moreland had long expected to die in prison. But when the coronavirus nearly killed him in 2020, it was that brush with death that ended up freeing him. “This is how God works,” Moreland, 67, said from his cozy living room at a subsidized apartment complex for seniors in Long Beach. When Moreland contracted […]
Israeli shelling in the Lebanese border town of Maroun El-Ras on Thursday killed an elderly woman in her 80s and wounded her husband, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said. The Israeli military said it launched artillery and airstrikes on Hezbollah militant positions in southern Lebanon late on Wednesday and early on Thursday. It did not […]
A second-hand dealer has won a case to keep the €4.2m (£3.6m; $4.6m) proceeds from the sale of a rare African mask he found in an elderly French couple’s attic. He had been brought in to help clear the attic of the couple, who sold him the mask for €150 (£129; $165). The couple sued, […]
CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas released a short video on Monday showing three elderly Israeli hostages whom the Islamist group seized during its Oct. 7 rampage. Israel denounced it as a “criminal, terrorist video.” The three men – identified by Israel as 79-year-old Chaim Peri, 80-year-old Yoram Metzger and 84-year-old Amiram Cooper – were taken hostage over […]
The year winds down, but housing news steams along here at Rent Free. This week’s stories include: Austin, Texas, just passed some of the nation’s best “middle housing” reforms that allow more housing in single-family neighborhoods. Some worry a recent court decision puts those reform in legal jeopardy. The federal government reports a big increase […]
From left to right: Amiram Cooper, Yoram Metzger and Chaim Peri, who are all currently being held hostage in Gaza The armed wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam Brigades, has released a video of three elderly Israeli men being held hostage in the Gaza Strip. The video shows Chaim Peri, 79, Yoram Metzger, 80, and Amiram […]
A Columbia couple has been arrested in connection with the murders of the woman’s mother and three other family members in Pendleton in 2015. Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride said at a news conference Friday afternoon that Amy Vilardi and her husband, Rosmore “Ross” Vilardi, had just been charged with the murders of Amy’s mother, […]
A man in Beverly Hills has been arrested for allegedly attacking an elderly man on Saturday morning while yelling antisemitic comments at him, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD). Officers said that Jarris Jay Silagi, 44, of Los Angeles was caught after fleeing the scene and arrested for the alleged attack. Shortly after […]
As its population ages, the United States is ill-prepared to adequately house and care for the growing number of older people, concludes a new report being released Nov. 30 by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. Without enough government help, “many older adults will have to forgo needed care or rely on family and […]