posted 11:23 pm Wed December 05, 2007 - LONG BEACH, N.Y. Residents don't want to have themselves a merry little Christmas tree. They want a big one. When city officials planted a 7-foot-tall Christmas tree next to a 20-foot-tall menorah in the plaza in front of City Hall, some residents barked.

Country star Trace Adkins will make a ghostly appearance opposite Kelsey Grammer in David Zucker's indie Christmas comedy "American Carol."

DUTTON, Ont. — A 69-year-old Ontario man has been charged in the death of his brother-in-law from Alberta, who disappeared after an ATV accident on Christmas Eve.

The excitement of Christmas approaching will fill Jaliene’s Choice Vegetarian Restaurant as they spread Christmas cheer with one of their specialties, the veggie burger, for the first hour at their 1st Annual Christmas party on Friday December 21st at 7pm sharp. “I thought this would be a great way to give back to the community," said the owner of the vegetarian restaurant, Nicola Harris. She ...

Rick Smith carves a wooden Santa Claus in his Kalispell shop recently. MICHAEL JAMISON/Missoulian

BBC costume drama Cranford is coming back for a two-part Christmas special in 2009.

BBC costume drama Cranford is coming back for a two-part Christmas special in 2009.

Brisk sales of personal navigation device (PND) during Christmas and the Lunar New year prompted branded vendors and distributors to over-stock inventory which will likely take the market two months to ease, according to sources from Taiwan-based IC design houses.

A former poultry factory in a north Norfolk village looks likely to be redeveloped as housing. The Cherryridge business at Northrepps near Cromer closed three days before Christmas in 2006 with the loss of 75 jobs.

Award winning 1840s drama about residents of small Cheshire market town to make reappearance