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Poor Port St. Lucie, Florida. For years they have been teased in the media because their Christmas tree kept dying. Season after season the city spent thousands in an effort to replace a beloved city symbol in a tree that had served well for decades but succumbed to a disease. They planted new trees each [...]

When the Hock family Christmas tree goes up this year, one ornament is likely to stand out.
The small, silver nutcracker, which marks a child’s first Christmas, was nearly lost.
Come December, “We would have wondered where it was,” Meg Hock said last week of the ornament that contains a photo of her oldest son, [...]

A Christmas card from Anne Frank has been found in a Dutch antique shop.
The card, bearing the signature of the schoolgirl who hid from the Nazis for years in an Amsterdam house before being caught, was sent in 1937 two years before war broke out.
It was addressed to Samme Ledermann, one of Anne’s best friends, [...]

Sad news for Christmas fans everywhere — the worst kind of predator is also known as “the best Santa ever”. News like this comes as parents and Santa Claus Employment agencies continue to grapple with issues revolving around the backgrounds of professional Santas.
A rare international alert seeking a man shown in dozens of raw child [...]