[naviga:h3]George H.W. Bush, 91, falls, injures neck

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — George H.W. Bush, the oldest living former U.S. president, fell at his summer home on Wednesday and broke a bone in his neck but was doing OK, a spokesman said.

Bush, 91, was hospitalized in stable condition and was doing “fine” after Wednesday’s fall, spokesman Jim McGrath said. McGrath tweeted that the 41st president would be in a neck brace.

Bush was being treated at Portland’s Maine Medical Center, where a children’s hospital is named for his wife.

Bush, who has a form of Parkinson’s disease that has forced him to use a motorized scooter or wheelchair for mobility, has suffered a few other recent health setbacks. He was hospitalized in Houston in December for about a week for treatment of shortness of breath. He said he was grateful to the doctors and nurses for their care there.

He spent Christmas 2012 in intensive care at the same Houston hospital while being treated for a bronchitis-related cough. He was discharged in January 2013 after a nearly two-month stay.

Bush, a Republican, served two terms as Ronald Reagan’s vice president before being elected president in 1988.

[naviga:h3]Egg prices rising because of avian flu[/naviga:h3]

WASHINGTON — Eggs are getting much more expensive.

The outbreak of avian flu caused the cost of eggs to nearly double last month for producers. Wholesale prices for chicken eggs jumped 84.5 percent in June, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

The spike comes amid otherwise tame inflation across the rest of the economy. The producer price index, which measures the costs of goods and services before they reach consumers, increased 0.4 percent in June.