Do you have the "after-Easter blahs?" It's something like the "after-Christmas blahs." After Christmas, the seed companies send out their catalogs to tantalize you into thinking about spring and all the seeds you can plant that will miraculously grow into gorgeous plants and leafy vegetables.

DENVER – Colin Connors knows all about beating the odds. When he was 18-months-old, doctors told his mother on Christmas, he wouldn't make it to New Year's. Now, he's getting ready to go to college.

Perhaps heartened by the (artistic) success of 2006's One More Drifter in the Snow – the only serious addition to the ranks of Christmas albums since Low's Christmas – Aimee Mann and her producer Paul Bryan continue its vein of artful, elegant melancholia into an album that attempts to counterbalance on its own the vast, overbearing weight of empty cheer habitually pumped out by the ...

The Church of the Visitation, Mantoloking Road, Brick, will be hosting a "Christmas in July" craft fair 9 a.m.-3 p.m. July 19 in the church auditorium. There will be a wide range of specialtycrafted items available, including jewelry, wood, quilts, florals, home decorating and much more. A snack window as well as a visit with Santa will be available.

Nickelodeon Thursday announced that Drake Bell and Josh Peck, stars of the network’s popular teen sitcom Drake & Josh, will co-star in “Drake & Josh: Best Christmas Ever,” an original television movie coming to the network in December.

Nickelodeon Thursday announced that Drake Bell and Josh Peck, stars of the network’s popular teen sitcom Drake & Josh, will co-star in “Drake & Josh: Best Christmas Ever,” an original television movie coming to the network in December.

With Christmas 2005 approaching, the princes of al Qaeda's western command were gathering. They'd been summoned for something special: to plot a three-month campaign of coordinated suicide, rocket and infantry attacks on American bases, checkpoints and Iraqi army positions.

Cultural misunderstanding can pop up anytime. Suddenly I have no idea what a tree is supposed to look like. Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of The Christmas Garden, a fairytale land just outside Akureyri in northeast Iceland where Christmas is celebrated every day of the year.

Just before Christmas 2007, a 24-year-old Prunedale native died in Iraq. Pfc. George Howell's convoy was passing near Riyadh, in the northern part of the country, when a bomb exploded under his truck, killing him and injuring four other soldiers.

Victims of Christmas season violence in Kandhamal face threats and ostracism.