CHRISTMAS

If some Christian groups get their way, Johnny Depp will end up with a lump of coal in his stocking this Christmas.

A Michael Buble Christmas airs on NBC on Tuesday night.

Patty White has confessed to killing long-time friend, Michele O'Dowd, and to leaving her friend's body under a pile of Christmas presents in O'Dowd's Jacksonville, Fl. home.

More than a third of U.S. shoppers are already done with most of their holiday shopping, a survey showed on Monday, signaling that retailers need to offer bigger incentives to win sales in the few weeks before Christmas.

Kung Fu Panda 2 leads the way with 12 nominations, including Best Animated Feature.

Mobile phone applications that allow online shopping on the move could give battered British retailers something to cheer about in what is otherwise set to be one of the toughest Christmas trading periods for years.

Mobile phone applications that allow online shopping on the move could give battered British retailers something to cheer about in what is otherwise set to be one of the toughest Christmas trading periods for years.

Pippa Middleton has been invited by her sister, Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William's wife, to spend Boxing Day with the British royal family.

It's that time of the year again when the pressure of playing Santa proves challenging for most parents. Your kid wants a very special toy, without which the world seems to fall apart.

The NBA has added two more games to its Christmas Day tripleheader: the Orlando Magic vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Los Angeles Clippers vs. the Golden State Warriors.

A Chicago female television anchor has angered parents after saying there was no Santa Claus during a live broadcast on Fox in Chicago.

The American Family Association has compiled a naughty or nice list of national corporations based on how often they use the word Christmas in holiday advertising.

A burst of energy that lit up the sky Christmas Day 2010 has been explained as one of two possible star collision theories, scientists revealed in the journal Nature. A 28-minute long gamma-ray burst was recorded that day by NASA's Swift observatory. Now, two papers from Nature attempt to explain the explosion using two models of star collisions, one within our galaxy and one billions of light years away.

President Barack Obama and family will light the new national Christmas tree in Washington Thursday evening, according to the National Park Service.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command is getting ready to track Santa's 2011 journey. The NORAD Tracks Santa website went live on Thursday, featuring a countdown calendar, a kid's countdown village with holiday games and activities that changes daily and video messages from students and troops from around the world.

All I Want for Christmas, a new version of Mariah Carey's 1994 hit featuring Justin Bieber, premiered for the first time at NBC's Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting special on Wednesday evening and has some critics calling it naughty, not nice.

While I haven't read the entire Bible, I've been through enough of it so far to know that so far there is no person named Santa Claus in it. Yet the way so many who profess to celebrate the birth of Jesus who hold up Santa Claus instead, I can't help but wonder if I don't just need to keep reading and maybe this Santa Claus dude is going to show up sooner or later and valiantly save the day, like some kind of John Grisham plot.

Last December's blizzard mess won't happen this year. The Dept. of Sanitation will keep us safe. We're going to have to get back and prove to them that one little slip is not the way we are going to operate in the future, Commissioner John Doherty told reporters at a news conference. I remember that blizzard, and I remember other ones from years gone by. And, maybe I'm just contrarian, but, know what? I like them!

The White House holiday decorations were opened to media tour in Washington on Wednesday. The theme of this year's decorations is 'Shine, Give, Share' and features decorations honoring U.S. military service.

The Canadian superstar hits another million.

It seems the Duchess of Cambridge has a lot on her plate this Christmas and will be needing several outfits for each appearance. Reports are that Middleton has already begun shopping around for the perfect outfits.