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Thursday: Boomers & Beyond

Addressing disability complaints a top priority for rights department

MARQUETTE — Disabilities now account for the top type of discrimination complaints to the Department of Civil Rights. “Disability has now outpaced race, in terms of those complaints that we received,” Executive Director John E. Johnson Jr. said. “Our goal in enforcement is to receive ...

Proposed telemedicine rules could limit rural prescriptions

LANSING — Controlled medications like Adderall and opioids could no longer be prescribed via telemedicine, under a proposed rule by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. Critics say the use of telemedicine to prescribe the drugs, allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic, helps patients in rural ...

At a glance

Negaunee Senior Center Kristy Basolo, director seniorcenter@cityofnegaunee.com 410 Jackson St. Negaunee, MI 49866 Phone: 906-475-6266 Fax: 906-475-6291 Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Senior Citizens Center | Negaunee, MI (cityofnegaunee.com) City of Negaunee Negaunee ...

Local briefing

MARQUETTE — — Michigan Veteran Homes D.J. Jacobetti will host its 26th annual Charity Golf Outing at the Marquette Heritage Golf Course at 1075 Grove St. at 10 a.m. June 29. Registration for the four-person scramble format outing is currently open; golfers can download the registration ...

Deadly heat waves threaten older people as summer nears

PHOENIX — Paramedics summoned to an Arizona retirement community last summer found an 80-year-old woman slumped inside her mobile home, enveloped in the suffocating 99-degree (37 C) heat she suffered for days after her air conditioner broke down. Efforts to revive her failed, and her death ...

Woman got $0 from condo sale: U.S. Supreme Court to decide fairness

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — Geraldine Tyler, now 94, lost her one-bedroom condo in Minneapolis over $2,300 in unpaid taxes, plus interest and penalties. Hennepin County sold the apartment for $40,000 and kept every penny. Tyler’s lawyers say the county violated ...