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Police: Body Found in Md. River Is Missing NC Teen

BALTIMORE -- After months of searches and appeals to the public, authorities confirmed Thursday that a body found in a northeast Maryland river was a North Carolina teen who went missing while visiting relatives in Baltimore over the Christmas holidays. Phylicia Barnes, from the small North Carolina city of Monroe, about...

Woman, Dead Since Christmas, Found Amid Trash in Home

For three months, the adult son of Cecylia Opilka lived in their Chicago townhouse with her corpse. Her decomposing body was entombed within the garbage that filled the home almost to the ceiling, police said. After being called to the residence by neighbors reporting a strong stench, city workers could barely open the...

NY Christmas Day Parishioners Exposed to Hepatitis A

Hundreds of people may have been exposed to hepatitis A when they received Christmas Day communion at a Catholic church on New York's Long Island. Nassau County Health Department officials say anyone who attended the 10:30 a.m. or noon services at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Massapequa on Dec. 25 may have been exposed...

Secret Santa Pays Widow's Electric Bill

Just like good little girls and boys around the world, the employees of Socorro Electric Cooperative start looking for Santa come December. When she arrived this holiday season, she was even more generous than usual. A female customer who prefers anonymity drops by the New Mexico electric company every Christmastime and...

Prosecutors: Terror Suspects Targeted US Embassy, Big Ben

British prosecutors say that nine young men arrested a week ago on terrorism charges may have planned to bomb the London Stock Exchange, Big Ben and the U.S. Embassy over Christmas. The men are accused of plotting to blow up several key landmarks in London as well as the homes and offices of some political and religious...

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Who's Your 'Mother?'

Mother's Day is almost upon us and everywhere there are advertisements for flowers, brunches, and cards.

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Best Mother's Day Gift Ever

Over the years my daughter has given me an array of wonderful Mother's Day gifts.

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Growing Up With Your Parents Owning A Small Business

There we were, my brother and our parents and I, laying waste to an Everest-sized pile of carefully wrapped presents one Christmas morning in the early 1980s, when the phone rang.

Christmas News From the Web

05/27/12 Operation Christmas Child : Program planning is under... Source: Cleveland Daily Banner - Cleveland TN Most folks generously donate shoe boxes full of hard candies, school supplies, toys, books, dolls, matchbox cars, stuffed toys, clothing, etc., to Operation Christmas Child every year.
05/26/12 Travel Challenge: White Christmas Source: AdelaideNow - Australia BRING your childhood Christmas fantasies to life on this 14-day package tour through the Canadian Rockies departing Victoria on December 15 from $6595 a person, twin share.
05/23/12 SaMo Punts On Nativity Scene: The city of Santa Monica... Source: Curbed - Los Angeles The city of Santa Monica delayed a vote on the future of the nativity scene tradition in Palisades Park, reports CBS Los Angeles.
05/23/12 Naomi Campbell in Holy Land for birthday Source: ABC - NewsChannel 5 - Cleveland OH Supermodel Naomi Campbell has celebrated her 42nd birthday with a trip to the birthplace of Jesus, wishing for "good vibrations, not destruction" in the troubled Middle East. Campbell, wearing a white shirt and black sunglasses, was flanked by Palestinian guards and her own private security detail Tuesday as she toured the biblical town of Bethlehem.
05/23/12 Last minute teacher gifts! Source: Lodi News-Sentinel - Lodi CA It's the last week of school and if you're like me, you might realize it's time to get rolling with teacher gifts.

Background on Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day (, literally "Christ's mass") is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ, celebrated generally on December 25 as a religious and cultural holiday by billions of people around the world.

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