Recovery

A cafe in Charlotte, North Carolina, is giving people recovering from addiction a fresh start. The Community Matters Cafe partners with the Charlotte Rescue Mission to offer jobs and life skills to people leaving its treatment program. The café’s chief operating officer, Ed Price, joined LX News to discuss how the business is putting purpose over profit.

As President Donald Trump promises a quick comeback from the coronavirus pandemic and the country tentatively starts to reopen, many are hoping for what some are calling a V-shaped recovery. That’s where the economic uptick happens as quickly as the downturn. But Financial and economic analyst Jim Lowell doesn’t think that outcome is very likely. He subscribes to another prediction:...

The virus that has sickened over 4 million people around the world and killed more than 250,000 others is so new that patients face considerable uncertainty about what they can expect in recovery and beyond

The numbers that state health officials report each day keep going up and up and up. The number of people tested for the coronavirus, the number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the number of people who have been killed by the virus. There’s another number that does not get reported but also keeps rising — the number…

A Richmond, Virginia, artist, hoping to share messages of hope, is using his talent to show the faces of recovered coronavirus patients.

A rural Minnesota couple is sharing their experience recovering from COVID-19. Annette and Larry Bremer are two of 23 confirmed cases in rural Martin County — an experience that, according to Annette, felt like being “hit by a bus.”

Two experts and a survivor raise eating disorder awareness and share resources and hope for those who are struggling. For more information and resources, visit

medainc.org .

A severely emaciated pit bull has a long recovery ahead of her after she was found stumbling around a Manchester, New Hampshire park, according to animal shelter officials. The Granite State Dog Recovery picked up a dog they named “Daisy” from Livingston Park on Monday, according to a Facebook post from the Manchester Animal Shelter. The dog was reportedly found...

Police say they have recovered a family’s stolen car with their Christmas gifts still inside in Massachusetts. Lauren and William Ingram say they packed the car with their 4-year-old daughter’s gifts Thursday when someone stole the vehicle as it was warming up in a driveway in Dedham.

Some Massachusetts homeowners and small businesses are still struggling to return to normalcy after September’s dramatic gas pipeline explosions, even as the utility responsible says the vast majority of customers have heat and hot water again.

National Grid gas workers who have been locked out of their jobs amid a tense contract dispute have been cleared to assist with recovery efforts for the Merrimack Valley.

Gov. Charlie Baker approved the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency to send a response team to hurricane-stricken parts of Florida to assist with recovery efforts for approximately two weeks. MEMA is sending response team comprised of 12 members from the Incident Management Team after the Emergency Management Assistance Compact requested their assistance. The team left Monday, according to officials.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is in good spirits as he recovers from heart surgery in a Los Angeles hospital.

Demi Lovato celebrated six years of sobriety with her followers on Twitter Thursday afternoon. The singer and songwriter thanked her family, friends and CAST centers, a mental health and wellness program organization she created to help people struggling with addiction receive treatment, for being integral to her journey and recovery.