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Along with hot flashes, irritability and fatigue menopause can cause a variety of symptoms, not the least of which is bladder control problems and vaginal dryness.  Vaginal health issues are commonly seen in postmenopausal women and breast cancer survivors, especially when using Tamoxifen, a medicine that blocks the effects of estrogen and is used to treat breast cancer.  And some women are unable or unwilling to use estrogen-containing medicines for treatment.

Hartsell, Ala. (AP) — The calls come at all hours of the day and night, waking the woman from sleep, interrupting her prayers at church and pulling her away from school events. The most recent call came on a recent Saturday, hours before her daughter’s senior prom.

Kathleen and Randy are two beautiful, very active children.    Randy is in kindergarten.   He loves animals and playing outside.   He also likes playing with Legos, Sponge Bob and ninja turtles.     Kathleen is a chatty and outgoing little diva.  She loves to dance and sing and be the center of attention.    She loves to have her nails painted, wear dresses and play with her dolls.  She loves babies and is very good with them.   She is very protective of her younger brother.  Kathleen is in the third grade and makes mostly A’s and B’s.   Both of these children thrive on attention.   They love to be hugged and to hold hands.  They will do well in a loving adoptive family where they can have very clear structure, expectations, consistency and lots of undivided attention.    Kathleen was born in February 2007 and Randy was born in February, 2010.

The Department of Justice, together with the Department of Education, has effectively held Title IX funding over the heads of school districts nationwide to promote third gender protections and recognitions. 

As Santa Rosa County commissioners have discussed the proposed new courthouse in recent weeks, and a new one-half cent sales tax to pay for it, both have shrunk.

Two of Santa Rosa’s major wastewater utilities are citing state-regulated effluent treatment limits while lobbying county commissioners to grant expansion plans that face public opposition.

The father and son duo, Marvan Darby Sr. and Jr. have a long-standing history of arrests in Santa Rosa County.  The two most recently were accused of stealing a lawnmower and weed eater out of garage on Segura Street, around the corner from where they live on Andorra Street. 

New Orleans — Researchers are heading out to study the effects of a Shell leak of about 88,200 gallons of oil off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, a scientist said on Monday.

John Niven Cotner, age 26 of Mary Esther, gave deputies chase Monday afternoon after shoplifting several items from Walmart on Navarre Parkway.  Deputies responded to the store after the asset protection department saw Cotner walk out of the store without paying for merchandise.  They confronted him but he left the store. 

Some backers of the proposed 1-cent sales tax to pay for a new Santa Rosa County courthouse are debating whether their plan should be put before the voters in prime time.