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STILLWATER, Okla. – Do you ever feel frustrated when you look at the ingredient list on a loaf of bread because you don’t know what most of the ingredients are?

OKLAHOMA CITY – Whether your vacation takes you near or far, AAA offers travelers peace of mind with tips to keep your home safe while you’re away. According to the FBI, home burglaries increase in the summer months, since burglars see vacations as an opportunity to target empty homes, and renters are more likely to be robbed than homeowners.

This may just be the perfect year to grow fall tomatoes in Oklahoma since our summer hasn't been too horribly hot or dry for too terribly long. Fall is a great time to garden because there are fewer insects, fewer weeds, less watering, and it's cooler for the plants and for the gardener.

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 You're on fire this week, Aries. Ideas are sparking left and right.

America's National Park Service is more than 100 years old. President Woodrow Wilson signed the act that created the NPS on August 25, 1916, and since then the parks have attracted a steady stream of nature lovers who want to take in all the beauty the parks have to offer.

These are some of the fishing conditions reported around the state. NORTHEAST Birch: Jul 20.

The Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria) at the Japanese Peace Garden were simply wonderful this year. The rains, decent temperatures and mowing times all worked together to produce a blanket of yellow around the garden.

It's not difficult to identify people whose life has been touched by profound loss or personal tragedy. All you have to do is listen.

  Nearly 400 years ago, a devout Christian fought against the despair that had every right to take down anyone who’d lost his father and mother before he was 15 years old, whose school was nearly shut down by the Black Death, who was fired from the congregation he served because he was too committed to God’s Word, whose wife and all but one child died before he did, on top of which was the constant mourning and funerals a pastor of a church had to do during the ravages of the Thirty Years’ War and the bubonic plague. Yet, rather than giving in to despair, Paul Gerhardt wrote a powerful hymn that still lifts the hearts and souls of many Christians around the world, today.