VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis told an Italian newspaper he had offered to travel to Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin to try to end Russia's war in Ukraine and suggested the invasion might have been provoked by NATO's eastward expansion.

Hip resurfacing is another kind of hip replacement surgery

Dear Doctors: My older brother worked construction his whole life, and now he has bad arthritis in his left hip. He was in enough pain that he finally saw his doctor about it. Instead of a hip replacement, they want to do hip resurfacing. What is that? Will it be as effective as a hip replacement?

Reader feels stuck in a rut

DEAR HARRIETTE: I feel like nothing is going right in my life. I am busy with work, which is good, but it just feels like a treadmill. I get up, and it seems like the week whizzes by. I don't do anything much for fun. My husband and I live in the same house but barely talk to each other. My life is boring and just ... nothing.

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Excited for rain

Marlee Sperle stays dry under her umbrella as she watches the much needed rain Wednesday. Some reported Clinton received half an inch.

The majority of this week’s Clinton City Council meeting was held behind closed doors during an executive session of the Clinton Hospital Trust Authority.

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