Santa Claus is Comin' to Norwood (The Norwood Post)

Santa doesn't come without a party when he shows up in town.


How to Salvage Your Retirement (WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance)

Almost 30% of those who have already retired have saved nothing at all to support themselves, while only a third have saved at least $50,000. Instead they were relying on ... what? Santa Claus?


Mapping Toronto's Sound Ecology: From Architecture to Santa Claus (Fast Company Magazine)

While the City of Toronto unveils a material-culture scrapbook of 176 years of history, designers Greg J. Smith and Max Ritts map what Toronto sounds like today. Toronto just celebrated its 176th birthday by cleaning out its closet. The city gathered up 100 of the 150,000+ objects in its historical collection and put them online in an awesome, interactive, object-based scrapbook of Toronto's ...


Slim: Businessmen can't be Santa Clauses (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

MEXICO CITY—Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, first showed a talent for business as a 10-year-old kid when he filled his pockets with pesos selling drinks and snacks to his family.


Mayor, aka Santa, joins supervisor's race (Orange County Register)

BUENA PARK – Mayor Art Brown said he will join an already-crowded race to replace Chris Norby on the county's powerful Board of Supervisors. Brown has lived in North Orange County for more than 30 years, and has spent two decades on Buena...


Unexpected Christmas delights seniors (Galveston County Daily News)

Santa and his merry elves paid a surprise visit to Galveston County seniors this Christmas, bringing delight and smiles.


World's richest man, Carlos Slim, a born wheeler-dealer (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Mexico's Carlos Slim, named the world's richest man on Wednesday, first showed a talent for business as a 10-year-old kid when he filled his pockets with pesos selling drinks and snacks to his family.


JFK Condolence Letters Reveal How a Nation Grieved (The Online NewsHour)

For the first time, some of the condolence letters sent to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 have been published. Gwen Ifill talks to historian Ellen Fitzpatrick about the letters and her book.


Man pleads not guilty in death of disabled brother (CNews)

A Prescott man was charged with first-degree murder on Thursday in the 2008 starving death of his disabled older brother.


Andy Warhol exhibit draws thousands (KVOA Tucson)

TUCSON - If you're looking for something to do this weekend, you can take a close look at works by the "Pope of Pop". The Tucson Museum of Art downtown is exhibiting works by pop icon Andy Warhol.