ATLANTA -- Dorothy and George Williams lived through three Atlanta winters in a house with no heat, electricity, running water or even interior walls. Last year, the cold was so bitter that 73-year-old Dorothy was rushed to Grady Hospital with blood clots after one of her legs froze.

Their home on Fontaine Avenue just off Cascade Road in ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — About 30 friends crowded around four tables this fall at Gus and George’s Spaghetti and Steak House in Virginia Beach chatting about when gas tanks could be filled for less than a dollar. As they waited on their lunches of fried fish and burgers, they remembered when Lucille Ball was all the rage, their parents preached ...Read more

It took only two months, some lifestyle changes and clever supplement use for six women to turn back their biological clocks an average of 4.6 years.

Published in the journal Aging, the study’s half-dozen participants ranged from 46 to 65 years old. They engaged in a “methylation-supportive diet” as part of their eight-week lifestyle ...Read more

North Myrtle Beach positively glows during the holidays. As the birthplace of the Shag (that upbeat and kicky regional dance inspired by the jitterbug), the beachy berg goes all in for merrymaking.

But rather than snow and mistletoe, this South Carolina coastal charmer brings sand and the Grand Strand—and millions of twinkling lights, miles ...Read more

Jeff Kromrey, 69, will sit down with his daughter the next time she visits and show her how to access his online accounts if he has an unexpected health crisis.

Gayle Williams-Brett, 69, plans to tackle a project she’s been putting off for months: organizing all her financial information.

Michael Davis, 71, is going to draft a living will ...Read more

“The future is here,” the email announced. Hilda Jaffe, then 88, was letting her children know she planned to sell the family home in Verona, New Jersey. She’d decided to begin life anew — on her own — in a one-bedroom apartment in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan.

Fourteen years later, Jaffe, now 102, still lives alone — just a few ...Read more

Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern.

“What’s going on with your breathing?” asked Peter Gliatto, director of Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program.

“I don’t know,” she answered, so softly it was hard to hear. “Going from here to the ...Read more

Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern.

“What’s going on with your breathing?” asked Peter Gliatto, director of Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program.

“I don’t know,” she answered, so softly it was hard to hear. “Going from here to the ...Read more

The NFL on Thursday announced all 32 nominees for its annual Walter Payton Man of the Year award, and tight end Travis Kelce is the Chiefs’ representative.

“I’m truly honored to be nominated as the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year,” Kelce said in a news release. “This organization and this city mean so much to me and to have the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The text arrived midday, saying a delivery to me was on hold. To fix the problem, all I had to do was click on a web link and enter my ZIP Code.

"Have a great day from the USPS team!" the text said.

The awkwardly worded message (with bad punctuation and an international phone number) was clearly not from the Postal Service. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The text arrived midday, saying a delivery to me was on hold. To fix the problem, all I had to do was click on a web link and enter my ZIP Code.

"Have a great day from the USPS team!" the text said.

The awkwardly worded message (with bad punctuation and an international phone number) was clearly not from the Postal Service. ...Read more