“Your granddaughter needs to go to a hospital in Nashville for her depression,” I told my 95-year-old mother. “She’ll be away a few months.” My mother sat in her easy chair in stony silence. After my ...

My boyfriend died of a heart attack. He didn’t leave a will, so I have the option of buying his house. The taxes will double to $4,400 a year. I’m looking at other possibilities closer to where I’m ...

My dad planned to golf and relax when he retired, but dying at 56 meant he never got to. His life and death taught me to enjoy the present while still saving and planning for the future. I'm only in ...

Dear Annie: I’m a 75-year-old widow who has lived in the same little Cape for 43 years. I still do my own shopping, I drive myself to church, and I host Sunday supper when my joints cooperate. I’m not ...

Dear Eric: I guess I don’t know how to let it go. My sister is five years older. There was a problem during a visit she made with her grandson more than 10 years ago. Her husband caused chaos and ...

When my friend said he’d written a will and put me in it, it was an awkward moment. I told him I didn’t know what to say, so I thanked him and left it at that. We were both in our 60s and had no ...

Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who is feuding with a sister after the death of her spouse. By Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and best-selling author ...

The daughters of a Manchester man who died just six weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are urging others to learn the warning signs of the "deadliest common cancer". Andrzej Bielecki, ...

This tweet-heart is getting a happy ending. A beloved bright-green-and-yellow parakeet named Mei Mei who spent 10 weeks living with a flock of sparrows in the wilds of Central Park now has a forever ...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died after being poisoned with a rare "dart frog toxin," the United Kingdom's Foreign Office said in a statement released Feb. 14. The announcement comes two ...

I was startled awake by my phone ringing in the middle of the night. At first, my groggy brain mistook it for my alarm – but it was my mum. ‘It’s Luke,’ she said – and instantly, I knew something ...

Nineteen people died in New York City during a recent snap of brutally cold weather that lasted more than three weeks, according to city officials. The region has exited its Code Blue emergency, but ...