NEW YORK - Over the years, Caroline Kennedy sometimes wondered about a Michigan third grader who wrote to her father, President Kennedy, worried that Russian bomb tests at the North Pole would kill Santa Claus. ...more

December 24, 2007

A skinny, fit-looking Santa? Is that what you want? Perhaps, if you're U.S. Surgeon General Rear Adm. Steven Galson. ...more

December 24, 2007

A diferencia de la mayoría de niños y adolescentes, su lista para Santa Claus no incluía un juego de video, un iPod, ni ningún otro juguete popular en esta época. Lo único que Stevie Rodríguez anhelaba era una ducha donde poder bañarse diariamente. "Lo que han hecho aquí [la remodelación del baño] es un milagro para esta niña", dijo Hilda Castillo, su tía abuela, una tampeña de ancestros cubanos. ...more

December 22, 2007

Donations were down this year, but Alex Cooks didn't want to disappoint the hundreds of schoolchildren who would find new bicycles under the Christmas tree. ...more

December 22, 2007

A man dressed as Santa Claus was knocked unconscious by a thrown object that hit his face while he was riding on the back of a truck decorated as a sleigh. ...more

December 19, 2007

At least one person wasn't surprised when Rich Rodriguez left West Virginia to become the new coach at Michigan. ...more

December 17, 2007

This was sent in by one of ourvolunteers and seems most appropriate for the holidays. A holiday message from your Humane Society of the Nature Coast, Inc. ...more

December 16, 2007

As children across the country fill out their holiday wish lists, one group of high school students remembered that Christmas is also a time for giving. ...more

December 15, 2007

Main Street Holidays continued as a traditional salute to the season last weekend at Sims Park in New Port Richey. Activities included several visits by Santa Claus, an annual Christmas play, holiday movies, live music, an arts and crafts village, carnival and midway, festival food and free tours aboard the Miss Daisy. ...more

December 14, 2007

No, Virginia, Santa Claus was not invented by the Coca-Cola Co. The contention that Coke created the modern image of Santa and decked him out in corporate red has become something of an urban myth in recent years. Just the other day, the BBC phoned Coca-Cola archivist Phil Mooney and put him on the radio to address the issue. ...more

December 11, 2007