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As India ages, a secret shame emerges: Elders abandoned by their children 08/01/2024 09:02pm • GARHMUKTESHWAR, India (AP) ��� They were found in gutters, on streets, in bushes. They were boarded on trains, deserted in hospitals, dumped at temples. They were sent away for being sick or outliving paychecks or simply growing too old. By the time they reached this home for the aged and unwanted, How the Family Opportunity Mortgage Can Help You Buy a Home for Your Elderly Parents 08/01/2024 08:00pm • If your elderly parents want to move into a new home but can't obtain financing on their own, you might be able to help through a loan commonly known as the Family Opportunity Mortgage. The Family Opportunity Mortgage makes it easier for children to purchase or refinance a home for their parents. He Vermont gets respite from flood warnings as US senator pushes for disaster aid package 08/01/2024 07:06pm • MORGAN, Vt. (AP) ��� Vermonters started removing debris and silt from their houses and yards and pulled out damaged goods from homes on Thursday as crews began the process of repairing roads from the latest bout of violent flooding that came just weeks after more widespread flooding in the state. I Olympic Beach Volleyball Results 08/01/2024 06:19pm • Thursday Men Preliminary Phase Pool C Germany (Nils Ehlers; Clemens Wickler), def. Australia (Thomas Hodges; Zachery Schubert), 16-21, 21-18, 19-17. Poland (Bartosz Losiak; Michal Bryl), def. France (Julien Lyneel; Remi Bassereau), 21-15, 21-18. Pool D Cuba (Noslen Diaz Amaro; Jorge Luis Alayo Molin Body of 20-year-old North Carolina man recovered after 400-foot fall at Grand Canyon National Park 08/01/2024 06:01pm • GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) ��� The body of a North Carolina man who fell 400 feet (122 meters) near a scenic viewpoint on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park has been recovered, authorities said Thursday. Park rangers said they received a report about a park visitor falling from Sellers market: Freshman Sellers ready to take over for Rattler at South Carolina 08/01/2024 05:04pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� Few quarterbacks at South Carolina were as talented or impactful the past couple of decades as Spencer Rattler. Now, freshman LaNorris Sellers is ready to show he's capable of leading the way like his good friend. ���My main goal is to win, just really win,��� Sellers said. � City of Cleveland offers $461 million to Browns for stadium upgrades as team weighs move to suburbs 08/01/2024 04:55pm • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� The city of Cleveland has given the Browns a proposal to renovate their stadium in hopes of keeping the NFL team downtown rather than seeing it move to a new dome in suburban Brook Park. Cleveland's submission includes $461 million from the city, $227 million of which would come f Behind the lines of red-hot wildfires, volunteers save animals with a warm heart and a cool head 08/01/2024 04:17pm • COHASSET, Calif. (AP) ��� While firefighters continued to battle California���s biggest wildfire of the year, Norm Rosene was spending 18-hour days behind fire lines with a different task ���- saving the animals. Tucked in an old wooden barn in the decimated forest town of Cohasset in northern Calif Basketball and Biles: US hoops team watches Simone win yet another gold medal 08/01/2024 03:37pm • PARIS (AP) ��� True to their word, the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team showed up to see Simone Biles at the Paris Games. And she didn't disappoint. Several members of the Olympic squad ��� Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Tyrese Haliburton and Jrue Holiday among them ��� were in Paris o Salvadorans honoring Saint ��scar Romero: During these difficult times, he is like a ray of hope 08/01/2024 03:34pm • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) ��� It���s as if Joyce Valencia could still hear Saint Oscar Romero���s voice. ���I met him when I was a little girl,��� the 61-year-old Salvadoran said. ���We used to gather around our radio with our grandma to listen to him. And, even now, listening to him encourages 14-month-old boy rescued after falling down narrow pipe in the yard of his Kansas home 08/01/2024 03:27pm • Emergency crews have rescued a terrified and screaming toddler after he fell into a narrow pipe and got stuck around a dozen feet (about 3.7 meters) below ground in the yard of his Kansas home. ���There we go,��� Officer Ronnie Wagner of the Moundridge Police Department can be heard saying on body c Sea lions are stranding themselves on California's coast with signs of poisoning by harmful algae 08/01/2024 02:54pm • SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) ��� Sea lions are stranding themselves on a long stretch of the California coast and showing signs that they may have been poisoned by a bloom of harmful algae, experts said Thursday. The Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute said that since July 26, it has been Emergency fuel waiver issued for four Midwest states to alleviate soaring gas prices after storms 08/01/2024 02:05pm • The Environmental Protection Agency is issuing an emergency fuel waiver to help alleviate gasoline shortages in four Midwest states after the shutdown of an refinery in Illinois. Exxon Mobil shut down its refinery in Joliet, Illinois, last month after a power outage when tornadoes and severe storms Biggest, most diverse fleet in Olympic sailing hits the water 08/01/2024 01:51pm • MARSEILLE, France (AP) ��� The biggest and most diverse fleet of the 2024 Olympics' sailing events, the one-person dinghy, hit the water Thursday in sweltering Marseille. The small, white-sailed boats ��� formerly known as lasers, now called ILCA 6 for women and ILCA 7 for men ��� go slower, sail de Connecticut man bitten by rare rattlesnake he tried to help ends up in coma 08/01/2024 01:30pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� When Joseph Ricciardella saw the snake in the road, he stopped his car and tried to help it avoid getting run over. The attempted good deed landed him in a Connecticut hospital in a medically induced coma after the timber rattlesnake, which is rare in the Northeast, bit his