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Feb. 18--Conrad Weiser's Randy Criss had to rely on his feet and his wits. He had little choice. Late in his compelling, 189-pound title bout with Gov. Mifflin's Chris C [...]

Aug. 22--Dr. Laura is done in December. Well, not really. She'll be retiring from her nationally syndicated radio show, but will still share her vast knowledge of the human condition [...]

Aug. 08--Lately, I seem to be suffering from some strange symptoms. Among them are tight shoulders and neck, headache, crankiness and anxiety. I've seen no specialist, but somehow I suspect [...]

Aug. 01--'Even the tiniest Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart.' -- Dorothy Hinshaw Patent 'If Chihuahuas were people, you'd find them in the hammock on sunny summer days, instead [...]

Jul. 3--WHILE RUMORED girlfriend Cameron Diaz was nowhere to be found, magician Criss Angel entertained female fans with magic tricks Saturday night at a party at the Borgata in Atlantic [...]

May 10--Tom Moravec of Wyoming, Minn., knows all about wooden boats such as the Criss Craft that Decatur's Houston Lovelace restored. He builds them at his Sunrise River Boatworks. Moravec, [...]

Dec. 19--'Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?' a Clarence Oddbody, Angel Second Class from [...]

Dec. 12--'Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance -- each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.' a Deborah Whipp 'Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In [...]

Nov. 28--'I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.' a Charles Dickens 'Do they still make wooden Christmas Trees?' a Linus Van Pelt [...]

Nov. 21--'We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.' a Thornton Wilder Thanksgiving has always seemed sort of lost, [...]

Nov. 14--'There are three stages of man: He believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.' -- Bob Phillips 'Never worry about the [...]

Nov. 07--'Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.' a Logan Pearsall Smith 'Nieces [...]

Oct. 31--'The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his [...]

Oct. 17--'There is no hope of joy except in human relations.' a Antoine de Sainte-Exupery 'I get by with a little help from my friends.' a John Lennon 'Don't be [...]

Sept. 19--Fifty years ago on July 11, 1960, J.B. Lippincott & Co. published a first novel by a young Alabama woman named Nelle Harper Lee. A year later, that novel [...]

Sept. 05--'I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.' -- [...]

May 9--A basket of gerbera daisies hangs just outside the wide windows overlooking my deck. I have a fair view of the dangling flower pot as I sit at my [...]

Apr. 11--'Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass' --- Sir John Vanbrugh Annabel Park is a new name on my list of folks with [...]

Feb. 28--I was reading a piece in The New York Times earlier this week about parents who send their kids to occupational therapists to help them become successful students. It's [...]

May 17--Today is an anniversary of sorts. Actually, it's a day of bittersweet memories. On this day seven years ago, little Olivia Morris was born, the baby daughter of friends [...]

May 10--More than a month ago, I had the honor of spending a morning at the Hancock Leadership Center with my friend and co-worker Ginny Miller. We'd been asked to [...]

May 3--In mid-April I attended a graduation. There were no sounds of 'Pomp and Circumstance.' No famous commencement speaker encouraged lofty goals or high aspirations. No one achieved the cum [...]

Apr. 26--'Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean [...]

Mar. 29--'Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's party!'' -- Robin Williams 'Spring prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.' -- Christopher Morley Spring is here and [...]

Mar. 15--'If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music.' --- Gustav Mahler There's a traveling exhibit [...]

Mar. 8--'The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event.' -- Anonymous When I was a little girl, no one could quash my snow [...]

Feb. 22--'You can't teach an old dog new tricks.' -- Sir Anthony Fitzherbert 'Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.' -- James Herriot I started a night class several [...]

Feb. 5--'Animals are such agreeable friends. They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.' -- George Eliot I've known very few Chihuahuas up close and personal. Only two, to be [...]

Feb. 1--'Animals are such agreeable friends. They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.' -- George Eliot I've known very few Chihuahuas up close and personal. Only two, to be [...]

Jan. 25--'Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained, hope must remain, even where confidence [...]

Jan. 18--'Without music life would be a mistake.' -- Friedrich Nietzsche As funerals go, his was one of the best. He loved music. So there was music. And more music. [...]

Jan. 14--'The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.' -- Charles Kuralt There's a man in New York City [...]

Jan. 11--'The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.' -- Charles Kuralt There's a man in New York City [...]

Dec. 21--'Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?' -- Clarence Oddbody, Angel Second Class in [...]

Nov. 23--'We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.' -- Thornton Wilder Thanksgiving has always seemed sort of lost. [...]

Nov. 10--'Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.' -- Calvin Coolidge No matter how you cast your [...]

Oct. 19--'Life is nothing without friendship.' -- Marcus Tullius Cicero 'It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your [...]

Oct. 12--'Change is inevitable -- except from a vending machine.' -- Robert C. Gallagher 'Change is good. You go first.' -- Dilbert Moving was once a fun adventure. It mattered [...]

Oct. 5--'All God's children need traveling shoes.' - Maya Angelou 'The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.' - Carl [...]

Jan. 24--With Rudy Giuliani attempting to sell himself to Florida voters by embracing the idea of a national catastrophic insurance plan to ease storm insurance premiums, John McCain didn't back [...]

Feb. 19--Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan., Obituaries Obituaries Linda Wheeler-Criss 1970 -- 2008 Lawrence Inurnment services for Linda Wheeler-Criss, 37, Lawrence, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Memorial Park Cemetery in [...]

Nov. 07--When Sam Shumaker was a child, he saw steam locomotives criss-cross the Cleveland area. That love of trains translated into a hobby for Shumaker and several other enthusiasts who [...]

June 24--Ben Uzoh has criss-crossed the nation numerous times while trying to impress NBA teams during the past three months. On Thursday night, Uzoh will settle in front of a [...]

Jan. 17--Karen Harrington tossed a ball to her dog, who enthusiastically criss crossed the empty, rutted sand in pursuit. They slowly continued south, dog and owner sharing the beach with [...]

Dec. 10--Jeff Clay has been criss-crossing the state this year with a message. A big problem is looming in the state pension system that is going to hit taxpayers hard, [...]