2010 NBA Schedule: Five Games We'd Love To See on Christmas Day

What are the first things that come to your mind when thinking of Christmas? Probably something along the lines of elaborately decorated trees, piles of gifts and endless amounts of wrapping paper, watching It's A Wonderful Life on Xmas Eve, one of the best meals you'll have all year, and quality time with those you love the most. The one thing missing from that list? That's right...some NBA ...


Touring Williamsburg

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia's top tourist attraction and the state's second capital after Jamestown, is like entering a time portal to the colonial era.


Gift for North Pole: Say it with sewers

Christmas in July for Santa? Tucked away in the fiscal 2011 appropriations bill for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency is a $1 million earmark, inserted by Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), to be given to the "City of North Pole for industrial force sewer main." Shopping - Gifts - Personalized - Greeting Letters - Santa Claus


QVC Observes Largest CHRISTMAS IN JULY Event in 24-Year History

Leading multimedia retailer QVC observed its largest CHRISTMAS IN JULY® event in the company's 24-year history, with more than $46.5 million in orders â representing a 14 percent increase over prior year CHRISTMAS IN JULY results.


Bad Blood?

It reads like a bad science fiction novel: A small Illinois biotech company cuts a deal with UCSD. The university agrees to test a substitute for human blood on comatose patients -- victims of gunshots and car crashes -- without the patients' consent.


Residents turn their passions into careers

An oil and gas executive. A mortgage consultant. A mom trying to help her daughter.


'Grandma Groupies' follow pro golfers with tender loving care

Nancy Tison owns a wardrobe of golf clothes. Not for playing golf. For meeting and following professional golfers, their careers and their families. read more


Father's Day gifts are a drag

If aliens descended on our planet on Father's Day morning, they would wonder what kind of strange civilization honors its patriarchs with automated tie racks, golf ball washers and valet charging stations. Not to mention hundreds of ties they wouldn't be caught dead in. Every year when I start to feel guilty that I have no idea what to get for Father's Day, I simply take one look at a sales ...


BACKWARD GLANCES - Redwood overrun with Coke - cola, that is - Redwood Falls, MN - Redwood Falls Gazette

Fifty years ago this week, Redwood Falls voters rejected an effort by the city to build a new nursing home on this lot at the intersection of DeKalb and Second Streets. This July 26, 1960 Redwood Gazette photo shows how the future home of Sunwood appeared at the time.


Doak Walker's last football season

Doak Walker ended the speculation about his future in football by announcing on July 29, 1955, that he had agreed to play one more season with the Detroit Lions.