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<pubdate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:46:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Kansas resident searches for Berry, Odum ancestors in Parker County area</title>
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<pubdate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:43:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Clean hands for healthy living</title>
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  <description>Many of you or you know of family members and or co-workers who have had a touch of the 24-hour flu. Chances are that it was actually a food borne illness and you got it from someone not washing their hands before preparing food.</description>
  
  
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<pubdate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:27:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>&#8216;Knight-less&#8217; basketball</title>
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  <description>Colorful collegiate basketball faded by several shades with the sudden retirement of Texas Tech Coach Bobby Knight. (Someone said he waked on Groundhog Day, saw his shadow and figured it meant six more weeks of basketball.)</description>
  
  
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<pubdate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:13:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Kissin' Kin</title>
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<pubdate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:11:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Are you a chocoholic?</title>
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  <description>Do you ever get that craving for something chocolate, whether it is a piece of chocolate, a candy bar, a chocolate chip cookie, or even a cup of hot cocoa. </description>
  
  
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<pubdate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:32:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Bye-bye, blackbirds?</title>
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  <description>Nature lovers often refer to their &#8220;fine, feathered friends.&#8221; Most Fort Worth lovers agree with the &#8220;feathered part,&#8221; but Cowtown folks say that some birds are neither fine nor friends.</description>
  
  
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<pubdate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:07:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Longhorns, Sooners famous for Red River Shoot Out</title>
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  <description>Q: Where is or what is the Red River Shootout? </description>
  
  
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<pubdate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:52:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Kissin' Kin</title>
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<pubdate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:47:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Ten ways to eat less</title>
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  <description>One of the keys to a healthy and successful weight loss is by eating less. Sometimes that can be a challenge for many because you feel you have to deprive yourselves of foods you love.</description>
  
  
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<pubdate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:13:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Don&#8217;t look, Ethel! ...</title>
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  <description>Erath County, an hour&#8217;s drive southwest of Fort Worth, is known for cow-milkin&#8217; and Dr Pepper-drinkin&#8217;. Locals think that when media folks land there in numbers, they&#8217;re &#8220;sniffing out&#8221; whatever the college kids at Tarleton are up to.</description>
  
  
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<pubdate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:56:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Lunch specialities from the past</title>
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  <description>Killing time while checking out the hole&#8230; When I entered the seventh grade here in Weatherford the Junior High was located where the City Hall is presently located.</description>
  
  
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<pubdate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:26:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>And baby makes four? </title>
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  <description>When I was in graduate school I was involved in a theater group in Fort Worth for several years. </description>
  
  
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<pubdate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:20:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Kissin' Kin</title>
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  <description>I am searching for William (F.?) PARKER who supposedly died in Parker County.</description>
  
  
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<pubdate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:18:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Be wary of those diet claims</title>
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  <description>Losing weight. If you are tired of hearing about it, join the crowd.</description>
  
  
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<pubdate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:40:00 +0000</pubdate>
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 <title>Uncle Mort and the paparazzi</title>
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  <description>Sometimes phone calls from my Uncle Mort down in the thicket call for considerable dissection.</description>
  
  
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