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NEW YORK (AP) Ignore the jellybeans and chocolate eggs. You can have something sweet this Easter season that's not sugary: trend-right, candy-colored makeup.

The cheerful hues give off a youthful, happy vibe while definitively moving your look from winter to spring.

"Spring is a season of change. Everyone wants a new look or a pick me up," says Erin McCarthy of the beauty brand Make Up For Ever. "These pastel colors work really well for that. It's a pop of something fun but it's not too much, not too scary. It's a safe experiment."

Tamaqua Police Officer Matthew Houser recently paid a visit to Wendy Lesniak's day care on Orwigsburg Street in Tamaqua. Houser is Lesniak's nephew. She asked him to visit in uniform on his day off for a "play date" with the children in her care. The purpose of the visit was to reinforce the idea that police officers are children's friends, and not someone to be feared. With Officer Houser are Matthew Matukonis, Kassidy Kuhn and Ethan Bennett.

The ladies at the Panther Valley Golden Agers sported their handmade Easter bonnets at their recent meeting. Seated from left, are Jen Snyder, Bernice Strepko and Grace Moser. Standing are Norma Burke, Mary Ciganek, Shirley Pavlick, Ronnie Bazik, Tootsie Orsulak, Ruthann Feane and Irene Hudasky. The women paraded through the center, listened to the PV Golden Agers Chorus and had refreshments.

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) – The authors of a book about the mass shooting at an Amish school in Pennsylvania are distancing themselves from a movie adaptation airing on the Lifetime Movie Network.

The authors of "Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy," say they declined to work with the producers of a similarly named movie out of respect for the community affected by the shooting in Nickel Mines.

Five girls died and five others were badly wounded when Charles Carl Roberts IV barricaded himself inside the West Nickel Mines Amish School and opened fire in October 2006.