Thanksgiving News

Mawbey Street School lives up to its name as number one, Fifth grade essay winner Sana Qureshi expressed on Monday afternoon at the school's 50th anniversary celebration.

As chairman of the India Overseas Trust, which is organising events to mark the 40th anniversary of the expulsions, he reminded the multicultural congregation: "In September 1972, a plane landed at Stansted airport bringing refugees from Uganda who had with them nothing but one suitcase each and, if they were fortunate, 50 in cash.

Federal law establishes the following public holidays for federal employees. If the holiday falls during the weekend, it may be observed on a different day.

It's one of those unhappy holiday surprises -- a visiting family member gets sick.

Put down your spatula and pop in a video of "What's Cooking?", an ode to Thanksgiving as prepared in the kitchens of Latina Mercedes Ruehl, African-American Alfre Woodard, Vietnamese Joan Chen and Jewish Lai= nie Kazan.

As a teenager in the late 1950s, New Albany native Charles Oliver considered his career options and found that he liked no business better than the family business: making and selling eyeglasses.

It's like Thanksgiving every week for the Ellerbroek clan in Sioux Falls. A turkey dinner with all the fixings can feed a big crowd, and that's what the Ellerbroek siblings and their families look for in their Tuesday night dinners.

Fair season is just around the corner, but many of the Aldermere Achievers 4-H Club members at Maine Coast Heritage Trust's Aldermere Farm in Rockport are already winning praise and awards for a variety of things outside of the show ring.

One of the FBI's Most Wanted for more than a decade, James "Whitey" Bulger went on trial this week.

Fathers are our teachers. They support us, set examples and help us enter the world of adulthood.

On the night before Thanksgiving 2009, when he was 16, David Dove fatally shot a 24-year-old man in the Cutoff section of Algiers and wounded a woman in the process, a New Orleans jury determined late Friday.

WASHINGTON D.C., June 14 .- An influential Democrat-leaning communications strategy group has targeted critics of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, claiming it is "Catholic McCarthyism" to bar funds to groups allied with backers of abortion and "gay marriage."

It's not every day you get to witness the birth of a calf, the cheese-making process, or how milk is produced, but those opportunities are coming your way in July.

Hikers around Vallecito Reservoir are being asked to keep an eye out for any signs of a boy who went missing last November.

Here's a look at what you need to know about Thanksgiving Day, celebrated in the U.S. on the fourth Thursday in November.

Members of Paterson's Silk City Youth Services Program's Teen Center-Shadasia Johnson, Cocoa Pearson, T'shaka Thorpe, and Mara Kettle But it's not the furnishings that attract Paterson students to the center, formally known as the Silk City Youth Services Program.

The film is about a band of time-traveling turkeys who journey back into the back into the past in the name of wiping their breed off the Thanksgiving menu for once and all.

Encourage your pastor to tell us the upcoming week's sermon topic. It's FREE, and it's open to churches throughout the Big Country.

DADDY Cool: Come and join us this Sunday for Father's Day at a special Family Praise thanksgiving service in Rotherwick church at 10.30am.

Jeanne Jelke became executive director of the Benton-Franklin chapter of the American Red Cross in 2002.