For the last week, Sandy and Bill Carro's RV workshop has been turned into Santa's workshop as they prep their boat float for Avon Park's Christmas parade. ...more

November 28, 2009

Northwest Elementary School helps needy students and their families every holiday season, just like many other schools in Pasco County. ...more

December 17, 2008

A Lacoochee Elementary School kindergarten class arrived at Ergle Christmas Tree Farm on Tuesday morning wearing Santa hats and ready for a special holiday mission. ...more

December 3, 2008

A Lacoochee Elementary School kindergarten class arrived at Ergle Christmas Tree Farm this morning wearing Santa hats and ready to embark on a special holiday mission. ...more

December 2, 2008

Perched atop his horse, D'artagnon, Tampa police Officer Scott Rehbein saw all sorts of temptations for thieves in the WestShore Plaza parking lot Wednesday. ...more

November 27, 2008

Like jingle bells and Santa hats, Rehbein and other Tampa police officers patrolling the malls are a holiday tradition. Officers on horseback and motorcycles, and in unmarked vehicles, will conduct extra patrols at WestShore Plaza, International Plaza and along the Dale Mabry Highway corridor from now through Jan. 4. ...more

November 26, 2008

It's here: Christmas creep. Halloween is barely on the minds of schoolchildren, but retailers across the Bay area have begun putting up Christmas displays and piling decorations and other inventory onto the shelves. In some shops, prices on Halloween items already have been cut, and the ghosts and goblins play second fiddle to Christmas trees and Santa hats. ...more

October 6, 2008

On a base near a seemingly mythical place called Babylon, surrounded by flatness and dust and nothing familiar, soldiers are about to celebrate Christmas American-style. ...more

December 24, 2007

Wearing Santa hats and armed with ornaments, lights and ribbons, the volunteers went to work, spreading holiday cheer. ...more

December 6, 2007

Wearing Santa hats and armed with ornaments, lights and ribbons, the volunteers went to work, spreading holiday cheer. ...more

December 3, 2007