Christmas

HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Several hundred people followed Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s every move inside the mammoth store as he signed memorabilia, shook hands and raffled off a $1,000 gift card. If you're at a Walmart at 3 a.m. , you might just see Dale Earnhardt Jr. Full Article at USA Today

HILLSBORO, Mo. , May 16 (UPI) -- A Missouri woman must spend holidays in jail for the next two years as penalty for a Christmas Eve crash that killed a mother-to-be and her unborn twins. A judge warned Sharon Foster, 40, on Monday that she could get a tot Full Article at United Press International

BURLINGTON, ON, May 15, 2012 /CNW/ - On the heels of being named one of Canada's Greenest Employers for a fourth year in a row, IKEA co-workers will join Tree Canada from today to plant trees and shrubs in local communities surrounding IKEA Canada's 11 s Full Article at PR Newswire

America's moms, grandmothers, aunts, stepmoms and daughters will feel the love this Sunday to the tune of $18.6 billion, according to the annual Mother's Day spending survey from the National Retail Federation. Average spending for Mother's Day is expect Full Article at USA Today

Hold the chocolate and flowers. Hold the brunch reservations. What mom may really want for Mother's Day is for the whole gang to go to church first. Cindi Mason, director of the International Mother's Day Shrine, poses at the shrine in Grafton, W.Va. , on Full Article at USA Today

The National Christmas Tree, which stands on the Ellipse just south of the White House, has died and was cut down Saturday morning. The 28-foot-tall Colorado blue spruce was transplanted last March 19 after high winds toppled a predecessor. But the Natio Full Article at The Washington Post

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say the National Christmas Tree planted near the White House a year ago has died and is being removed. The National Park Service says the Colorado blue spruce died of "transplant shock." It came from a tree farm in New Full Article at USA Today

Bach’s music doesn’t give singers and wind players time to breathe. But you couldn’t tell that Sunday, when the Washington Bach Consort brought an exciting afternoon of his works to the National Presbyterian Church. Conducted by director J. Reilly Lewis, Full Article at The Washington Post

Katie Norton & Matt Waite Katie Norton, 29, teaches English at West Springfield High School. Matt Waite, 31, works for Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) and is a captain in the Army Reserves They live in Alexandria. Wedding date : March 31 Full Article at The Washington Post

At a store called the Christmas Attic in Old Town Alexandria, it’s beginning to look a lot like any day but Christmas. After 40 years of selling exclusively ornaments and other holiday decorations, the boutique officially rebranded this week to become “t Full Article at The Washington Post

Posted at 05:10 PM ET, 04/10/2012 TheWashingtonPost By Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo It is common to hear calls to “Put Christ back in Christmas,” but not so common to ask the same for Easter. Yet Easter has been more profaned and commercialized than Christm Full Article at The Washington Post

STEVENS, Pa. , April 8 (UPI) -- No holiday rises to the gifting magnitude of Christmas, but a U.S. marketing researcher says Easter follows Halloween as fastest growing holiday. Pam Danziger , president of Unity Marketing and author of "The Gifting Report Full Article at United Press International

A suicide bombing outside a church in the northern Nigerian town of Kaduna killed several people on Easter Sunday. Last week, authorities had ramped up security and said they uncovered various plots to disrupt festivities. No one has claimed responsibili Full Article at The New Media Journal

Unlike Christmas, Easter doesn’t have a crazed shopping season preceding it. It doesn’t have its own tree. It doesn’t spawn wild office parties. It doesn’t boast its own annual TV specials for kids. It doesn’t spawn new albums from pop stars. It doesn’t Full Article at The Washington Post

Upon leaving the Finnish fundamentalist faith of my youth, I made my parents a promise that I would still attend church on Christmas and Easter. It was my fifth such Easter, but I was still anxious, aware that everyone would be looking to see what unbeli Full Article at The New York Times

MOSCOW — MOSCOW In the month since it performed an unsanctioned “punk prayer service” at Christ the Savior Cathedral, entreating the Virgin Mary to liberate Russia from Vladimir V. Putin , the feminist punk band Pussy Riot has stirred up a storm about th Full Article at The New York Times

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, has died. He was 88. Pope Shenouda III leads Christmas prayers Jan. 6, 2 Full Article at USA Today

BOSTON, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fiksu, Inc. Full Article at PR Newswire

On Dec. 25, 1964, as Mitt Romney enjoyed his last Christmas break as a high school student in Michigan, two Mormon missionaries visited Darius Gray in Colorado Springs and asked him whether he had any last questions before joining the Church of Jesus Chr Full Article at The Washington Post