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Winter Storm Bears Down on Mid-Atlantic, Northeast

WASHINGTON - A band of frigid weather was snaking up the East Coast on Sunday, promising blizzards and a foot of snow for New York City and New England, while several states made emergency declarations as the storm caused crashes and deaths on slick roads. Airlines grounded hundreds of flights Sunday along the Northeast...

A Quiet and Private Christmas Morning for Obamas

HONOLULU -- President Barack Obama spent a quiet Christmas in Hawaii Saturday, a rare bit of privacy for one of the world's most scrutinized men. The president is staying at a luxurious oceanfront home in Kailua with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha. The first family celebrated Christmas with a small...

Pope Celebrates Christmas Eve Amid Security Fears

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI ushered in Christmas Eve with an evening Mass on Friday amid heightened security concerns following the package bombings at two Rome embassies and Christmas Eve security breaches at the Vatican the past two years. Benedict processed down the central aisle of St. Peter's Basilica at the...

Pilgrims, Clergy Come to Bethlehem for Christmas

BETHLEHEM, West Bank - The traditional birthplace of Jesus is celebrating its merriest Christmas in years, as tens of thousands of tourists thronged Bethlehem on Friday for the annual holiday festivities in this biblical West Bank town. Officials said the turnout was shaping up to be the largest since 2000. Unseasonably...

First Lady Fields Kid Calls as NORAD Tracks Santa

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - Some kids who call NORAD on Christmas Eve to find out where Santa is hang up as soon as a volunteer answers the phone - probably because they expected a recording and not a real person, veteran Santa trackers say. There were some especially awed kids Friday, when one of the people...

Christmas eve News From the Web

05/21/12 Woman arrested for setting fire to home on Christmas... Source: News 10 Now - Syracuse NY Five months after a Christmas Eve fire destroyed a home in Hammondsport, State Police say they now know what caused it.
05/21/12 Murder in Mentor on Christmas Eve 1959: Whatever... Source: The Plain Dealer - Cleveland OH "Whatever happened to . . .?" is a weekly series updating some of the most newsworthy and interesting local stories covered in The Plain Dealer.
05/21/12 Firefighters battle mobile home fire Source: NBC - WAVY TV 10 - Portsmouth VA NEWPORT NEWS, Va. For the third time in less than six months, fire crews worked to contain a fire in the Pathco Mobile Home Park on Jefferson Avenue.
05/11/12 OC man sentenced for sex assault on 8-year-old Source: The Modesto Bee - Modesto CA An Orange County man has been given a possible life sentence for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl on Christmas Eve. The district attorney's office says 38-year-old Jorge Miguel Gallegos of Santa Ana was sentenced Friday to 40 years and eight months to life.
05/11/12 Driver Charged with Reckless Homicide in Christmas Eve... Source: CBS - 23 WIFR - Rockford IL ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- A Winnebago man who allegedly caused a fatal accident on Christmas Eve is behind bars tonight.

Background on Christmas eve

Christmas Eve refers to the evening preceding Christmas Day, a widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth that takes place on December 25. It is a culturally significant celebration for most of the Western world and is widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation of Christmas Day.

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