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It's a new year and plenty of people create New Year's Resolutions. We all know how the gym looks the first 2 weeks into the year and on the third week it's a ghost town. John Oliver spoke about New Year's Resolutions and said statistically if you haven't broken yours yet, you will soon. "His sound advice was not on how to keep those inevitably broken promises but 'how to revise them once you’ve failed.'” More information on his interesting advice can be found below.

The Trusville nursing home closed after reports of neglect and problems with care."The National Center on Elder Abuse interviewed 2,000 nursing home residents. 44 percent reported being abused and 95 percent said they’d seen others abused or neglected." A family received a call one day about a "spontaneous fracture" of a family member and 5-6 weeks later that member passed away. The accident was unintentional, but fully preventable. The nursing home attempted to cover it up and actually left the family member in the nursing home for 4 days with 2 broken bones "just lying there."

An accident involving a head on collision accord in Central Maine yesterday. The driver of a 03 Chevrolet S10 pick up truck crossed the center line of a 2 lane road and struck the driver of a 14 Toyota Tundra. The S10 rolled into a ditch and about 6 people pulled an 8 year old passenger out of the vehicle before first responders arrived. Moments later, the S10 exploded with the driver still inside. The 8 year old was flown to a medical hospital in Portland with unknown head injuries but was conscious, alert, and talking at the hospital.