When 81-year-old David Jansen ended up in hospital last year, a friend and a relative visited regularly and offered to look after his affairs and serve as his power of attorney. “I was very sick with a high fever and could hardly breathe or see,” Jansen told The Epoch Times, using a pseudonym due to…

Seniors are being urged to seek free legal advice after more than $3 million was recovered for victims of elder abuse in Victoria and New South Wales (NSW). Legal Aid NSW said elder abuse came in many forms but was most commonly in a “granny flat” arrangement where the older person has given a significant…

A Los Angeles judge cleared the former business manager of the late Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee of grand theft charges on Tuesday, ending a four-year criminal case that emerged in the final year of Lee’s life. Superior Court Judge George Lomeli dismissed three felony counts against Keya Morgan, 41, after a jury had voted…

LONG BEACH, Calif.—A 74-year-old man died from injuries suffered from when his 30-year-old daughter strangled him during an April 25 attack inside a Long Beach home, police said on May 7. Genesis Noemi Ochoa allegedly was involved in a fight with Juan Ochoa Rodriguez and a woman at about 2 p.m. that day in the…

A Sydney man will face court charged with murder after the “severely-emaciated” body of a woman he was caring for was discovered by paramedics, police say. The sole carer of a woman has been charged with murder after her emaciated body was found in Sydney’s southwest, police say. Paramedics went to a Greenacre home on…

A 56-year-old man is facing charges for allegedly tearing the necklaces off three elderly women and making off with the jewelry. Fountain Valley police said the crime spree began May 27, when a thief ripped the necklace off a 68-year-old woman. A second woman was robbed 12 minutes later a few miles away, Fountain Valley Police Department…