NowMyNews

Ann Marie Schmidt had knee replacement surgery last month. The operation was for an old injury that made walking painful, but the 71-year-old resident of Temple, Texas, has other, more serious conditions. She suffers from neuropathy (nerve pain), scoliosis and meningioma - a type of benign brain tumor. Schmidt is the kind of high-risk patient Medicare worries about as a candidate to land back in the hospital after surgery. Nearly one in five Medicare patients discharged from the hospital is readmitted within 30 days, at a cost of $17 billion every year to Medicare, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Aside from the expense to Medicare, readmission presents serious health risks for patients. "It's a long list," says Dr Eric Coleman, associate professor of medicine and a geriatrician at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. "But the big ones include infection, falls that cause fractures, medication errors, confusion or delir

Next week the Supreme Court is widely expected to hand down a ruling that will confer federal recognition on state-sanctioned same-sex marriages. If that ruling comes down as anticipated, it will send some gay and lesbian couples to the altar - but it is likely to send even more to financial planners, trust attorneys and tax accountants.   Such a ruling would open up a new world of financial planning for couples in same-sex-marriage states: There are more than 1,100 federal tax and benefit provisions that refer specifically to marriage or spouses. It would change the way they retire, pay taxes, accumulate wealth, plan their bequests and more - mostly, but not entirely, for the better. (Twelve states recognize same-sex marriage, and roughly 12 others are considering it.) "Everything we learn in law school is geared to a married couple with two kids," said J. Max Barger, an attorney with the Washington, D.C., firm Ackerman Brown. "It will be a pleasure to apply that

The trustee seeking money for Bernard Madoff's victims suffered a big defeat as a federal appeals court rejected his bid to recover nearly $30 billion from JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other class="mandelbrot_refrag"> banks he accused of aiding in the swindler's fraud. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said on Thursday trustee Irving Picard lacked standing to pursue a variety of claims on behalf of former Madoff customers. It also said that because Picard "stands in the shoes" of the former Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, he could not pursue other claims on behalf of the firm's class="mandelbrot_refrag"> bankruptcy estate over a fraud that the firm itself orchestrated. Thursday's 3-0 decision, written by Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs, is a victory for JPMorgan, which had been Madoff's main bank, as well as Britain's class="mandelbrot_refrag"> HSBC Holdings Plc , Italy's UniCr

Hollywood stabbing ~ A Hollywood stabbing over $1 ended the life of a 23-year-old woman. Three panhandlers were arrested for this Hollywood stabbing as they held Christine Calderon up against a wall and stabbed her because she refused to give them $1 for a fee they demanded so she could take pictures. Calderon had her camera and was snapping pictures of the stars along the Hollywood Walk of Fame when three men demanded she give them $1. She refused and they killed her, all over $1. Dustin James Kinnear, 26, was charged with murder. Jason Joel Wolstone, 33, and Brian Joseph Widdoes, 34, were charged with two counts of accessory after the fact. Examiner reported , About 8:30 on Tuesday night, Calderon was found at a busy intersection on Hollywood Boulevard. She was taken to the hospital, but died of the injuries she received from this attack. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a place that street performers and panhandlers flock to because it is such a tourist destination. P

Woman off cliff: Peruvian love triangle crashes to earth as angry wife tosses alleged love rival over precipice LAST UPDATED AT 13:35 ON Thu 20 Jun 2013 FALLING in love has often been compared to falling off a cliff, but for a woman in the Peruvian city of Arequipa the experience was rather more literal. CCTV footage allegedly shows a woman called Lisset Lupo Mamani pushing a younger woman off a cliff after she discovered her "love rival" talking to her husband. Kmov reveals The images reportedly show the husband, Renezo Saavedra, having a "heated conversation" with a woman alleged to be his mistress, Examiner reports 25-year-old Sandra Bruna Morales. Seconds later, Mamani appears and a heated argument ensues. The older woman grabs Morales by her hair and drags her to the edge of the cliff before throwing her over. Luckily for Morales, she survived the 20ft drop and was treated at a local hospital for cuts and bruises. The wife expressed remorse at the incident, r

Hollywood Stabbing - A woman was stabbed and killed on Hollywood's walk of fame-over a dollar. A homeless panhandler murdered Christine Darlene Calderon over refusing to pay for a photo she took. Hollywood's iconic tourist area has been rocked by the incident. The stabbing victim, Christine Darlene Calderon, was walking down Hollywood's Walk of Fame with a coworker. She saw a cardboard sign with a panhandler she thought was funny. Calderon, 23, pulled out her cellphone to snap a photo of a the homeless man's four-letter request for money. Minutes later, she was dead. One of the homeless men demanded she pay $1 for the photo. Calderon refused and a man jumped on top of her, knocking her to the ground. Two other men allegedly pinned her coworker against a wall, holding her back.  The incident occurred in front of an American Eagle Outfitters clothing store at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Ave. Calderon got up to run with blood gushing from a stab

Wife throws other woman off cliff; husband walks away (video). There's a new video making the rounds online that's shocking and compelling to watch all the same, like a real-life episode of "Cheaters" caught on tape. In the video, we see a woman approach her husband, who is wearing a red jacket and talking with another woman. The wife assumes it's a woman having an affair with her husband, so she drags the woman away across the ground and tossing her over the edge of a cliff into a ravine, 20 feet deep. Thankfully, the woman tossed over the cliff didn't die, but only suffered cuts and bruises. As of this writing, no charges have been filed in the case, however, most folks are commenting on the fact that the cowardly husband just runs away from the melee and allows his wife to toss a woman over a cliff. The "other woman" states, in fact, that she was not having an affair with the attacking wife's husband, but claims that he was after her. Classi