KETTLE FALLS, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say a bedridden woman who turns 106 on Wednesday is doing well in a Colville, Wash., nursing home after she was found begging for food in a filthy house.
The Spokesman-Review reports a deputy went to the home in Kettle Falls, Wash., last month looking for a man because neighbors reported his horses were starving.
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