UNDATED (AP) — Dean Foods, America’s biggest milk processor, has filed for bankruptcy amid a steep, decades-long drop-off in U.S. milk consumption blamed on soda, juices and, more recently, nondairy substitutes. The Dallas company said it may sell itself to the Dairy Farmers of America, a marketing cooperative owned by thousands of farmers.
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter was recovering Tuesday following surgery to relieve pressure from brain bleeding linked to recent falls.
A statement from a spokeswoman said there were no complications from the procedure, performed at Emory University Hospital for a subdural hematoma, or blood on the brain surface.
Carter, 95, will remain in the hospital for observation, said Deanna Congileo, his spokeswoman at the Carter Center.
The statement said the Carters thank everyone for the many well-wishes they have received, and Congileo doesn’t anticipate making more announcements until he’s released.
It was unclear how long Carter might be hospitalized, said his pastor, the Rev. Tony Lowden.
“If anybody can make it through this Jimmy Carter can. His will to serve is greater than his will to give up,” said Lowden.
The Carter Center said the bleeding was related to Carter’s recent falls. He used a walker during his most recent public appearance.
The first fall, in the spring, required hip replacement surgery. He hit his head falling again on Oct. 6 and received 14 stitches, but still traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, to help build a Habitat for Humanity home shortly thereafter. And he was briefly hospitalized after fracturing his pelvis on Oct. 21.
Carter’s wife of 73 years, Rosalynn Carter, is with him at the hospital, Lowden said. “She won’t leave his side,” Lowden said.
Large brain bleeds, usually after major trauma, can be life-threatening. But often, especially in elderly patients, the injury is a slow leak that takes a while to build up until initial symptoms such as headaches and confusion appear, said Dr. Lola B. Chambless, associate professor of neurological surgery at Vanderbilt University.
“It’s very typical in this setting to see these develop a few weeks or even a month or so after a fall,” said Chambless, who has not treated Carter.
To relieve pressure, surgeons most commonly drill one or two small holes through the skull to drain the leakage site. Larger bleeds causing more severe pressure may require removing a piece of skull.
Carter has been through a series of health problems in recent years.
He received a dire cancer diagnosis in 2015, announcing that melanoma had spread. After partial removal of his liver, treatment for brain lesions, radiation and immunotherapy, he said he was cancer-free.
Despite his increasingly frail health, the nation’s oldest-ever ex-president still teaches Sunday school about twice monthly at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains in southwest Georgia.
The church asked for prayers for Carter and his family in a message on its Facebook page. The church has announced that Carter will not be teaching his Sunday school class this week.
Carter candidly discussed his own mortality on Nov. 3, during his most recent appearance at their church. Referring to his cancer diagnosis, Carter said he assumed he’d die quickly after finding out the extent of his illness.
“Obviously I prayed about it. I didn’t ask God to let me live, but I just asked God to give me a proper attitude toward death. And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death,” he said.
Since then, Carter said he’s been “absolutely confident” in the Christian idea of life after death, and hasn’t worried about his own death.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is considering making a late run for the Democratic presidential nomination. That’s according to people with knowledge of Patrick’s deliberations, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Patrick ruled out a run earlier this year but has since been talking with Democratic operatives and donors about launching a campaign. His deliberations come as some Democrats express uncertainty about the party’s current crop of contenders. Patrick has not made a final decision on whether to run and faces fast-approaching deadlines to get on the ballot in key states. Patrick is a close ally of former President Barack Obama. He made history as Massachusetts’ first black governor, serving from 2007 to 2015.
Police in the Russian city of St. Petersburg plan to interrogate a prominent professor who has been detained on suspicion of killing a female student. Oleg Sokolov – a history professor at St. Petersburg University who is an expert in french revolutionary military history – was found Saturday with a backpack containing the woman’s severed arms. Police later found the rest of the body inside his apartment.
The widow of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is running for his vacant seat in the upcoming special election to replace him. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings told The Baltimore Sun of her plans to enter the race. The deadline to file for the Feb. 4 special election primary is Nov. 20. The election is slated for April 28. Rockeymoore Cummings also is resigning as chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party as she kicks off her campaign. She unsuccessfully ran for Maryland governor in 2018. Cummings died at age 68 after a battle with cancer on Oct. 17.
A Beaver County-based company has been nationally recognized for its role in employing veterans. The U-S Department of Labor has awarded the HIRE Vets Medallion to 28 companies from Pennsylvania for recruiting, employing and retaining America’s veterans. The nationwide award recipients hired more than 52-thousand veterans since 2017. Monaca-based Leaf Enterprises Inc. – a pest control company serving the greater Pittsburgh region – was the only Beaver County company to win a platinum-level award.
An Ohioville man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl at his own wedding last year…has been acquitted of all charges. Borough police charged 27-year-old Stephen Moon in April with aggravated assault, indecent assault, corruption of a minor and unlawful contact with a minor. According to the criminal complaint, the girl was attending Moon’s wedding at his home on July 7th, 2018 when he allegedly took her into a bedroom and said they were going to “make a pretend baby”. A jury found Moon not guilty of all four charges yesterday afternoon in Beaver County Court.
An animal cruelty case out of Aliquippa…is going to trial. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
County officials will begin discussions on final decisions on what turn out to be a tumultuous 2020 budget tomorrow. Financial consultant Corey Trautman is expected to unveil the first look at what the county is dealing with financially in 2020. The biggest unknown that remains for the county commissioners is the court-ordered property reassessment. They will have to determine if they will take on additional debt for the project, raise taxes, use a portion of its reserve funds…or a combination of all of the above. Those final decisions will be made during the coming weeks.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, NOV. 12TH, 2019
TODAY – SNOW SHOWERS. SOME MIXED WINTER
PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE. SNOW ACCUMULATING
1 TO 3 INCHES. HIGH – 32.
TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. NEAR RECORD LOW
TEMPERATURES. LOW – 18.
WEDNESDAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH – 34.