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Surprise state tops list of best places to retire in the US
By ALICE WRIGHT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 08:10 EDT, 26 July 2025 | Updated: 08:18 EDT, 26 July 2025 New England has emerged as the best region to spend your twilight years with four of its states ranked among the top ten places to retire....

People politicizing tragedies need to be ignored
When floodwaters swept away those little girls at the camp in Texas, it was made doubly hard for me because our family was at a camp in Vermont the same week. Watching my grandchildren playing and running and enjoying their time together made the...

Nevada Has the 15th Highest STD Rate in the Country
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Nationwide STD Rate Study Ranks Pennsylvania #33 in the U.S.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Wednesday season 1 recap: All to know before season 2 arrives
Wednesday season 1 premiered on November 23, 2022. It offered a reimagining of the Addams Family universe. But this time, through the lens of the sharp, macabre, and endlessly deadpan Wednesday Addams. The Netflix series, co-created by Alfred...

Nationwide STD Rate Study Ranks Massachusetts #34 in the U.S.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Editorial: Clash of values
There are certain issues that will likely divide us forever. Despite a concerted effort recently to impose state bans on abortion, a new poll finds most U.S. adults say abortion should be legal. In fact, the divide on that issue seems somewhat...

Alabama Has the 6th Highest STD Rate in the Country
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Oregon Has the 10th Lowest STD Rate in the Country
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Idaho Has the 5th Lowest STD Rate in the Country
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Washington Has the 12th Lowest STD Rate in the Country
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Nationwide STD Rate Study Ranks Michigan #30 in the U.S.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Nationwide STD Rate Study Ranks Kansas #27 in the U.S.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Nationwide STD Rate Study Ranks California #18 in the U.S.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Mississippi Has the 2nd Highest STD Rate in the Country
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Daniel K. Boyce
Daniel K. Boyce BENSON — Daniel Kenneth Boyce, 69 of Benson, died Tuesday morning, July 22, 2025, at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington following a long battle with sarcoma cancer. He was born on March 21, 1956, in Norwich, CT,...

Connecticut Has the 9th Lowest STD Rate in the Country
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—also referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—remain a persistent public health challenge in the United States, affecting millions of people each year. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Money, data led to birthing center closure
Nearly 93 years ago, on Nov. 6, 1932, the staff at the newly opened Copley Hospital in Morrisville delivered their first baby. On Nov. 1, just a few days prior to that anniversary, the hospital will cease to provide that service. The decision to...

Map reveals where it will cost you $40,000 to give BIRTH... as natural-born population risks going 'extinct'
Americans living in 10 states may have to fork over nearly $30,000 to give birth, shocking new data reveals. In Alaska, mothers opting for a vaginal birth can expect to receive a bill for $29,000, including both insurance and out-of-pocket costs....

My Mom Said 7 Cryptic Words To Me On Her Deathbed. Here's What I Finally Realized As I Got Closer To My Own.
*** Thirty-nine years ago, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. She immediately tried to quit smoking. She was 68, and I was 32. Six weeks after her diagnosis, my mother was in the hospital in Vermont, sick with sepsis. The doctor told her...