For people hurtling toward retirement, the standard personal finance advice is to continue to fund your retirement accounts as aggressively as you can, including taking advantage of catch-up contributions. Those additional contributions can add up to a tidy sum in retirement, but after age ...

Senior news RETIREES TO MEET: St. Joseph Warren Hospital Retirees will have their monthly meeting at an 11 a.m. brunch Monday at Wayside Restaurant in Champion. Retired and former employees from St. Joseph or Warren General Hospital are welcome to attend. Attendees are requested to bring ...

When a health care provider prescribes a medicine to you, they are usually focused on just the one condition for which you sought help. They might not think about long-term consequences for other body systems. A gastroenterologist who prescribes heartburn medicine, for example, may not warn ...

DEAR ANNIE: I’ve been friends with “Mark” since high school, which was over 15 years ago. He actually feels more like a brother than a friend. But over the past year, there’s been a shift in him. He’s gotten deep, deep into conspiracy theories. Every conversation somehow turns into a ...

DEAR HELOISE: Regarding favorite/least-favorite chores, I used to dislike folding laundry until I started seeing posts about different folding techniques on social media. Now I enjoy the numerous different ways of folding laundry items to minimize the space that they require. — Jerry A., ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’ve seen a number of stories lately about people who’ve been arrested for behavior that doesn’t seem to be criminal, but the behavior is odd. Some of these people are homeless, and I wonder if they are mentally ill and aren’t taking prescribed medication. — ...