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Charlotte, NC Senior News

• State departments prepare for big budget cuts

  State departments have been told to come up with proposals to cut their bottom line by up to 15 percent. Governor Perdue says this is in an attempt to prepare for a multi-billion dollar budget deficit next year.

• Nursing homes broaden offerings to turn a profit

  For decades, the mission at Miami Jewish Home and Hospital was simply to care for the old.

• Co-worker: Suspect's girlfriend alive during chase

  The co-worker of a woman found dead in her boyfriend's car after a fatal California police chase said Thursday that she spoke with the victim during the pursuit.

• Man charged in slaying in Denver restaurant parking lot

  Lincoln County sheriff's investigators charged a man Sunday with first-degree murder in the shooting of a 21-year-old Denver man in a restaurant parking lot.

• Russian nursing home fire kills 9 people

  A blaze killed nine people at a Russian nursing home on Monday and investigators say it apparently started when an elderly resident doused himself in gasoline and set himself on fire.