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Medicare's coverage for long-term care is very limited, while Medicaid generally requires people to impoverish themselves before it picks up the tab.

Washington state retools first-in-nation payroll tax plan for long-term care costs

The WA Cares Fund would help alleviate the financial burden of long-term care by providing workers a lifetime benefit of $36,500. The program was delayed while lawmakers addressed equity issues.

Zack Tahhan, a witness who reportedly notified police of Frank James' whereabouts, gives an interview after leaving the 9th Precinct where James is currently being held in police custody for his connection to Monday's shooting in a subway station.

$50,000 reward for info leading to the suspected subway shooter will be split 5 ways

Authorities are not officially releasing their names, but several people have already stepped into the spotlight, claiming credit for their role in helping NYPD officers capture the alleged gunman.

Lyla Kohistany served on active duty from 2001 to 2007 as a Naval Surface Warfare and Intelligence officer and as an intelligence consultant from 2008 to 2013 where she worked from the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, and U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).

As A Child, She Fled The Afghan War. As An Officer, She Returned — And Found Herself

Every day of Lyla Kohistany's life, her native country was at war. But the first time she really saw the place, she was a 25-year-old U.S. Navy intelligence officer.

KSFR brings home 2022 state and regional journalism awards

KSFR's award winning stories

President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak during a visit to Crawford High School in Crawford, Texas, on Nov. 15, 2001. The appearance wrapped up a summit of the newly elected presidents in Texas.

With Bush in 2001, Putin sought to charm students at a rural Texas high school

Back in 2001, Vladimir Putin was seeking respect from world leaders while pledging a new openness in Russia. That's what brought him to tiny Crawford, Texas, at the invite of President George W. Bush.

Left: Edwardo Benavides and his son Jonathon Benavides Reyes are migrants from La Unión, El Salvador. They took this portrait at an informal migrant camp in the border city of Reynosa, Mexico. Right: Stephanie Solano, 17, from Zacapa, Guatemala takes a portrait of herself at the camp in Reynosa.

Sony photo awards: Computers on horseback, magnificent mountains, bathing elephants

The 2022 Sony World Photography Award-winners include a photo of a man in Argentina transporting computers on horseback and twin sisters at a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar.

A dolphin stranded on Quintana Beach in Texas died after being harassed by beachgoers.

A $20,000 reward is on offer for details about the beachgoers who harassed a dolphin

The sick dolphin was stranded on a Texas beach and died after being harassed by a crowd of people. Some had tried to ride the animal, according to rescuers.

(from left) McKennzie Boyd, Taylor Livingston and Anya Jiménez are among the teenage playwrights chosen to present their work about gun violence, marking the 23rd anniversary of the Columbine shootings.

Young playwrights confront gun violence with their art and say #Enough

Across the country, theaters and civic organizations commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the Columbine school shootings by presenting readings of eight short plays by teenagers.

Pope Francis on his popemobile drives through the crowd of faithful at the end of the Catholic Easter Sunday mass he led in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 17, 2022.

The pope makes an Easter plea for peace in Ukraine, citing a nuclear risk

On what is supposed to be Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis made an anguished Easter Sunday plea for peace in the "senseless" war in Ukraine and in other armed conflicts in the world.

Members of the all-female skate crew ImillaSkate in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The athletes wear <em>polleras</em>,<em> </em>skirts traditionally worn by Bolivia's indigenous Aymara and Quechua women, when they skate at tournaments. "Many girls who see us skating feel proud to see us dressed [this way]," says skater Fabiola Gonzales. "Even our own families feel proud we're showing our traditions."

PHOTOS: How this Bolivian all-female skate crew is celebrating their Indigenous roots

The young women skateboard while wearing polleras, colorful, layered skirts worn by their country's Indigenous Aymara and Quechua women. They want to show girls and women it's OK to be themselves.

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