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Volunteers at the Collin County Committee on Aging prepared 1,200 Thanksgiving meals on Friday for senior citizens living in rural areas and because of a grant from Collin County they will be able to continue ...

Police have arrested a man suspected of leaving greasy, graphic imprints on the windows of stores, churches and schools in a small Nebraska town. A 35-year-old man was caught in the act by police early Wednesday morning, Cherry County Attorney Eric Scott said Friday. The man hasn't been charged yet, but authorities believe he is the vandal some townsfolk have dubbed the 'Butt Bandit.'

Beginning in spring of 2007, a mystery vandal visited businesses at night, pressing his naked behind _ sometimes his groin, sometimes both _ on windows. The marks were made with lotion or petroleum jelly, and while police had earlier worried copycat criminals were getting involved, Scott said they now believe it's 'the act of a lone deviant.'

As Americans head into the Thanksgiving holiday, only one thing is weighing heavier on their minds than turkey.

Picture from my archives Good morning, Netizens... TGIF! What better way to start off the approaches to Thanksgiving with a bit of humor? By the way, having raised some turkeys from the time they were chicks, I ...

Gov. Sarah Palin has granted the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to one lucky turkey.

Astronauts at the international space station prepared to work on a urine-recycling contraption and re-fire the space shuttle's thrusters Friday, before enjoying a half-day off to reboost their own energy.

President-elect Barack Obama is on track to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, an aide to his transition said Thursday.

A Veterans Administration employee and 13 other people have been charged with conspiring to steal nearly $2 million in disability claims.

Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a million or more laid-off Americans ...

A bipartisan group of auto-state senators reached a last-ditch compromise Thursday to throw Detroit's Big Three a government lifeline worth billions, but the plan faces an uphill battle in a reluctant Senate.

Chinese officials warned Thursday that the country faces a "grim" employment outlook with demand for workers falling and job seekers in the cities outnumbering new jobs by two-to-one as the economy slows.

While an Israeli cutoff in fuel shipments has closed down a dozen of his competitors, baker Khalil Awad stays in business thanks to a little creativity and dirty black oil drained from car engines. The cutoff in fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip's sole power plant started a week ago in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.

Israel has also banned journalists from entering Gaza, prompting top executives from some of the world's largest media organizations to file a rare protest.

ST. JOHNS, Ariz. -- An 8-year-old boy accused of killing his father and another man in Arizona will be allowed to spend Thanksgiving with his mother.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - November 19, 2008 - -- A former Ivy League professor was sentenced to five to 10 years in prison Wednesday for fatally beating his wife with a chin-up bar while she wrapped Christmas presents ...

Nov 19 - Mills are running out of supplies but Israel says its blockade of the Palestinian territory will end only when militants quit firing rockets across the border.

Broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables have a cancer preventative property that appears to work specifically in smokers.

The turkey may be the star of Thanksgiving, but it would be a pretty dull meal without a great supporting cast.

Acting under terms of a lawsuit brought by anti-pesticide groups and salmon fishermen, NOAA Fisheries Service issued findings under the Endangered Species Act that the organophosphate chemicals malathion, ...

The government sought Tuesday to dismiss concerns that it might try to delay rollout of the new GI Bill, pledging to be ready to handle growing claims in veterans education benefits after abandoning plans to ...

The dietary supplement ginkgo, long promoted as an aid to memory, didn't help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the longest and largest test of the extract in older Americans.