Mistletoe took its name from the Old English for 'poop twig', thanks to the plant's seeds being propagated by the droppings ...

Donald Bell, a 74-year-old gay Black man who is co-chair of the Illinois Commission on LGBTQ Aging, lives alone in a studio apartment in subsidized LGBTQ+-friendly senior housing in Chicago. He spent ...

Janaya Drummond’s letter to Santa didn’t ask for toys or candy or electronic devices. The 8-year-old girl’s Christmas wish ...

The Lahaina home Tamara Akiona shared with 10 people was never quiet, and she loved it that way. Akiona, her husband, uncle, ...

Beca Lew Skeels of Tango, Tenn., left, dances with a partner who preferred not to give his name, while clowns Peaches and ...

The boy once known as “Baby 81,” who was pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 ...

Our family carries forward through our children, grandchildren and friends, touched by the season and the imprint left by our ...

Let’s start by updating a pair of lawsuits that I’ve discussed in my Christmas wars columns. First, Mariah Carey looks likely to prevail against two songwriters who claim that the singer’s holiday ...

It is, perhaps, the most famous editorial ever written. One that has been reprinted year in,, year out in newspapers around ...

Porch pirates just seem to keep getting more and more bold. But people are fighting back with door cameras, drop boxes and ...

The sentencing presented one of the rare occasions when the victim’s family challenged the prosecutor’s recommended sentence.

Tucson rang in 2024 with an air of familiarity, but with a few new - and old - twists: immigration and asylum issues were ...