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Len Harper, pastor of South Brandon Worship Center, 4929 Bell Shoals Road, invites the community to celebrate the church's 25th anniversary.

BRUSSELS — Feel like having chocolate at Easter in Belgium? Well, send a letter and really lick that chocolate-flavored postal stamp.

Americans' consumption of fizzy soft drinks, on the decline since 2005, fell last year to its lowest level since 1996. If it weren't for increasingly popular energy drinks like Monster and Red Bull, the decline would have been worse.

The individual, who was infected in northwest Hillsborough in early March, is recovering under a physician's care, health officials said.

She describes it as "one of those lovely calls out of the blue" that makes your day.

Here's the latest in the long history of headlines about nature gone wild in Florida: Millions upon millions of giant killer mosquitoes are massing, poised to stab humans with proboscises the size of steakhouse knives.

Ray Terry estimates he's personally inspected and repaired more than 4,000 dryer vents over the past 16 years as the owner of The Almetal Dryer Vent Corporation in Charlotte, N.C., and he's seen one common problem over and over again that helps contribute to more than 15,000 dryer vent fires annually.

Courts routinely assign guardians to orphans, and the records created in the process often hold evidence that is highly valuable to family historians.

Don't forget to look in the backyard when you go to a yard or house sale. If the house is old, you may spot a concrete birdbath, an iron garden gnome, old tools hanging on a fence or even a log cabin playhouse.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

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