Brooke Astor's son stunned by abuse claims (AP)

NEW YORK - The son of philanthropist Brooke Astor said he was stunned by allegations that he abused his ailing 104-year-old mother. "I love my mother, and no one cares more about her than I do," Anthony Marshall, 82, said in a statement Thursday. Marshall, a former diplomat and Broadway producer who is now his mother's legal guardian, claimed the family spends more than $2.5 million a year to care for Astor at her Park Avenue duplex. She "has a staff of eight with instructions to provide her with ...