NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — This Christmas was unlike any other in Newtown. When a gunman wiped out nearly an entire first-grade class and killed students and adults in two other first-grade classrooms just 11 days before Christmas, it made it impossible for …
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(MOBILE, Ala.) — An enormous storm system that dumped snow and sleet on the nation’s midsection and unleashed damaging tornadoes around the Deep South has begun punching its way toward the Northeast, slowing holiday travel. Post-Christmas …
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Marking the eighth Christmas season of his pontificate, the 85-year-old read his “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) message to tens of thousands of people in St Peter’s Square and to millions of others watching around the world.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Forecasts of snow, sleet and freezing rain threatened to complicate Christmas Day travel around the nation’s midsection Tuesday as several Gulf Coast states braced for a chance of twisters and powerful thunderstorms.
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While you’re belting out holiday songs, sipping eggnog and warming yourself by the yule log in your Christmas sweater, you can up the fun factor for all and further aggravate your guests with the back story of some holiday traditions. Christmas traditions …
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Lena White has always tried to give back during the holidays. In years past, she’s volunteered at various functions, like giving out turkey dinners around Thanksgiving. This year, the young mother of four boys was looking to do “something different …
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Environmental campaigners in Germany are up in arms because increasing areas of woodland are being switched to the cultivation of Christmas trees, which is far more lucrative than normal forests. Now a state government wants to limit the trend …
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Most people happily anticipate the Christmas season, but for some, a post-divorce Christmas can be a time of loneliness, isolation, depression, conflict over child visitation schedules and nasty thoughts of your ex instead of sugar plums dancing …
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Congregants heard no triumphant organ fanfares, no joyous Christmas carols, only quiet readings and prayers in a sanctuary lit with votives amid the dusk of late afternoon. The music was a soft guitar strumming, accompanying …
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(CNN)– Christmas is synonymous with colorful decorations, festive markets and extravagant quantities of food. But while most yuletide celebrations share these general characteristics, there are of course a host of distinctive traditions and …
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