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DEAR DR. ROACH: I have occasional difficulty when going to sleep and/or getting back to sleep. I have tried Ambien, trazodone, clonazepam and Lunesta. All have their pros and cons. My question regards sleep quality. I know there are several stages of sleep that we should go through and that ...

Dear Annie

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Dear Annie: I moved to northern Florida over a year ago to help care for my parents. My sister has lived in southern Florida for many years, and for as long as I can remember, nearly every conversation with her includes the same question: "When are you coming down?" Before I moved here, she ...

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Dear Annie: My 15-year-old daughter was given a piece of sentimental jewelry on the day of her grandmother's funeral. It had belonged to her grandmother, and the gesture was meant to be a beautiful way for my daughter to carry a piece of her with her. At the time, my daughter seemed touched. ...

Western Pa. revolutionized energy extraction

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EDITOR’S NOTE: America would not be the nation it is today without its vast stores of natural resources. But those resources would have done us little good without individuals and companies willing to take risks. Much of that happened in Western Pennsylvania, where leading developments in the ...

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LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND — U.S. and Iranian negotiators were in Switzerland Sunday for talks on their interim agreement to end the Iran war. Pakistani and Qatari mediators were also at the scene for the technical-level discussions on resolving the conflict that began in late February. The U.S. ...

Going deep

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For 20 years, Shawn Sitar has studied a part of Lake Superior he has never seen. Sitar, a fisheries research biologist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, studies fish at the deepest spot on the largest freshwater lake on earth. It’s an area known as Superior Maximus, with ...