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Dear Answer Angel Ellen: Hoping you can help me with “hairdresser speak.” It seems I don’t speak the language, and I feel it is impeding what I get in a haircut. How do I approach a haircutter to say what I want? My hair is a weather vane — it flops when there is low humidity, and goes all wavy when it rains and shrinks in length. A cut that looks good when it rains doesn’t necessarily work in the dry weather and vice versa.

Health literacy refers to the ability of people to find, understand, and use information and services to make informed health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

Breast cancer may be thought of as a disease that affects only women. It’s the second-most common cancer diagnosed in women in the U.S., and it will affect 1 in 8 women, according to the American Cancer Society. Much of the messaging around breast cancer research focuses on the disease in women. However, breast cancer can occur in men as well.

On a cloudy, chilly Monday in November 1945, Lima wrapped up its first peace-time observance of Armistice Day since 1941 with a parade featuring the bands of Central and South high schools, the American Legion drum and bugle corps, and veterans of the armed forces.

LIMA — ‘Mean Girls’ is coming to the Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center this weekend.

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It all started with a question from a reader in Missouri: “Can pumpkin seeds minimize an overactive bladder? Is it better to eat ground-up pumpkin seeds or whole seeds? How much is advisable?”

Since last fall, Reagan has talked our ears off about playing football. At first, it was a hard no from Daddy – she was not going out there and getting tackled. But as I looked into options, I found out that the school has flag football. Daddy agreed and Reagan was ecstatic.

NEW YORK — Cher will come out of “retirement” to perform in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, appearing in the lineup just before the only star big enough to have the “Believe” singer as an opener: Santa Claus.

NEW YORK — Sixty years after the onset of Beatlemania and with two of the quartet now dead, artificial intelligence has enabled the release of what is promised to be the last “new” Beatles song.