Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: CVS store (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)   By Tom Murphy associated press CVS Health wants to do much more than fill your prescription or jab your arm with an annual flu shot. The second-largest U.S. drugstore chain is buying Aetna, the third-largest health insurer, in order to push much deeper into customer care. The…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Rep. Corrine Brown   associated press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida has sentenced former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown to five years in prison, followed by three years of probation, for fraud and other charges related to a purported charity for poor students that she used as a personal slush fund….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Sen. Al Franken  (Photo: Bill Z. Foster)   By Andrew Taylor associated press WASHINGTON — Minnesota Sen. Al Franken announced Thursday he will resign from Congress in the coming weeks following a wave of sexual misconduct allegations and the collapse of support from his Democratic colleagues, a swift political fall for a once-rising…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Jazz singer Jon Hendricks talks about his career in jazz at his home in Toledo, Ohio in 2014. Hendricks, the pioneering jazz singer and lyricist who with the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross popularized the “vocalese” singing style in which words were added to instrumental songs, died Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. He was 96.  (AP…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Christian Street Baptist Church  (Photo: Google 2017 ®)   While the struggle is far from over, the congregation is now free to determine their building’s future.   By Amy V. Simmons On Nov. 10, the Philadelphia Historical Commission decided at its monthly meeting to put the 19th Century structure that the Christian Street…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This image released by CBS shows, from left, Norah O’Donnell, Charlie Rose and Gayle King on the set of “CBS This Morning.” Rose’s co-hosts on “CBS This Morning” sharply condemned their suspended colleague Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, after the airing of sexual misconduct allegations that included groping female staffers and walking around naked…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  LaToya Cantrell   Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — It was an historic election night in New Orleans, where voters have elected the first woman mayor and the first member of the Vietnamese community to serve on the City Council. Complete returns show LaToya Cantrell, a City Council member, defeated former municipal Judge Desiree…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Rev. Jesse Jackson  (Editorial credit: Arturo Holmes / Shutterstock.com)   By Sophia Tareen Associated Press CHICAGO –The Rev. Jesse Jackson disclosed publicly last Friday that he has been seeking outpatient care for two years for Parkinson’s disease and plans to “dedicate’’ himself to physical therapy to slow the progress of the disease. In…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This Aug. 14, 2017 photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Charles Manson. A spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says the 83-year-old mass killer is alive Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP) By John Rogers Associated Press LOS ANGELES…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  (Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com) By Calvin Woodward and Hope Yen ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Veterans Day prompted President Donald Trump and his administration to take stock of what’s been done to fix health care for those in uniform. They claimed more progress than has been made. That tendency to overreach extended to trade and…

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