She set aside 45 days each year to put up elaborate displays.

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She wrote the book "Santabear's First Christmas" to go along with the department store's popular stuffed toy.

Last Christmas, Marguerite “Pegge” Gee of Philomath was making a surprise visit to see her 92-year-old uncle in Florida. She hopped a flight from Eugene to Seattle. In a rush to catch her connecting flight, she left her Apple iPod on the seat next to her at Sea-Tac Airport.

I received a very unusual Christmas gift that took me on a perilous, sometimes painful and nagging, but ultimately rewarding journey. On Dec. 25, a surgeon at Harrisburg Hospital transplanted a unique, but very functional, kidney into my system.

FORT EDWARD -- The Vermont couple arrested in December on charges they burglarized a Putnam home and stole hundreds of dollars in Christmas presents has been indicted by a Washington County grand jury.

Christmas was the last time the Iowa Energy had received anything positive from the Dakota Wizards.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A downtown moose with an affinity for fermented crab apples and Christmas lights is dead.

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