Christmas News

D UNDALK Chamber of Commerce are hoping to get the town's name into the Guinness Book of Record this years when they try their hand at breaking the Guinness World Record for the number of Santa's running at one time.

THE winning design for the Narooma Chamber of Commerce's Christmas decoration project is a whale draped in Christmas lights.

Prudence Hockley in a school photo. She was beaten Dec. 24, 2011 and died Christmas Day at Harborview Medical Center.

Marc Lindsey stabbed Edward Vials, 47, in Hill Park Road in Gosport, Hampshire, after his wife Laura had confessed to an affair with Mr Vials.

A Pinellas County jury listened Tuesday to the vivid and horrifying story of how Stacia Berman's body was found - wrapped in a blanket, plastic bags covering her head, floating in St. Petersburg's Lake Maggiore with two alligators swimming nearby.

QUESTION: My father is seriously struggling with Alzheimer's. I got him a smartphone last Christmas to keep him sharp.

DeRosa was convicted in the stabbing deaths of 73-year-old Curtis Plummer and 70-year-old Gloria Plummer almost 13 years ago.

It's the moment we've been waiting for since Kylie's little indiscretion at Christmas - yes, I'm talking about David finding out that the baby his wife's expecting might be Nick's and not his.

Archie McPhee has released two new 12-sheeted books of unusual gift wrapping paper: Creepy and Meat Parade .

The only laughs I can recall in recent years featured Phil Mitchell on crack - and I'm not sure any were supposed to funny AS we approach the halfway point of yet another TV year, it's probably time we checked in with those cheeky chirpy A Cockneys over in Albert Square .

Jim Brickman brings the spirit of the season to life once again with The Magic of Christmas.

Surrounded by sleigh bell-ringing, summer garb-wearing Santa Claus impersonators, Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday signed a law protecting Christmas and other holiday celebrations in Texas public schools from legal challenges - but also stressed that freedom of religion is not the same thing as freedom from religion.

Indonesia's parliament debated measures on Monday to open the way for a jump in fuel prices after months of delay that have undermined confidence in the government and the ability of Southeast Asia's biggest economy to continue rapid growth.

Neil Platt's battle with MND is the subject of a new film, I Am Breathing. In the last interview he gave before he died in 2009, published here for the first time, he describes his daily struggle They call it lock-in.

Firefighters struggle to contain a runaway blaze in THE TOWER. Photo courtesy of Madman Entertainment.

Texas Governor Rick Perry is joined by Reagan Bohac, whose father, Rep. Dwayne Bohac of Houston, who drafted the state's new "Merry Christmas Bill," at the law's signing last week.

Shaking her head in an emphatic "No," 2 year-old Arianna thinks she is being teased.

Feel festive all year round with these origami lights -- they are a colorful and bubbly decoration for your home.

On any given day seniors who participate in the hospitals day program can be found shooting darts, bowling, curling and sometimes listening to guest speakers.

Jason Obregon makes strawberry shortcake during the 75th annual Holland Strawberry Festival at the Community Homecoming Park.