UNDATED (AP)- The Christmas tradition has become nearly global in scope: Children from around the world track Santa Claus as he sweeps across the earth, delivering presents and defying time. Each year, at least 100,000 kids call into the North American Aerospace Defense Command to inquire about Santa's location. Millio...

NEW YORK (AP) - When it comes to Christmas, there's no getting away from Santa Claus. He's been the subject of poems and stories, movies and songs, invoked as the judge of naughty or nice, the recipient of countless cookies and glasses of milk to sustain him on his journey. For a lot of parents and other adults, perpet...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - At Scoma's Restaurant in San Francisco, this holiday season 's batch of eggnog began 11 months ago. The process typically starts in late January 2024, just after the previous year's celebrations are over. Nearly a thousand egg yolks, gallons upon gallons of heavy cream and roughly $1,000 worth of v...

DECEMBER 24, 2024: The winners of the Light Up Pierre 2024 holiday display contest have been released by the Pierre Area Chamber of Commerce. The winners in each category are: Best in Show: 816 Currant Drive, Pierre PACC says in 2025, there will be a new category in the contest. They'll announce details in November. . ...

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai says the U.S. has prevailed in its dispute under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement challenging Mexican biotechnology measures on GE corn imports. The USMCA panel agreed with the U.S. on all seven legal claims, finding that Mexico's measures banning imports of GMO corn fro...

The European Parliament this week voted to delay implementation of a deforestation regulation for a year, providing a reprieve for U.S. cattlemen. The rule will require imports of beef and other goods to include documentation showing they did not come from areas impacted by deforestation. In the case of beef, that incl...

MIAMI (AP) - As the stars of Friday's (Dec. 20, 2024) show in downtown Miami, baby pigs Glinda and Elphaba will never have to worry about gracing the dinner table at a Cuban American family's home on Christmas Eve. Public pardons for the two piglets were granted by the mayor of Miami-Dade County, Daniella Levine Cava, ...

DECEMBER 24, 2024: On Monday (Dec. 23, 2024), the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a federal district court's earlier order, which had previously halted the Jan. 1, 2025, deadline for small businesses to file their Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) with the U.S. Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes En...

WINTER PARK, Colo. (AP) - Officials were investigating Sunday what caused a crack in a Colorado ski lift that forced the evacuation of over 170 stranded skiers and snowboarders. The gondola lift at Winter Park Resort, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of Denver, automatically stopped when it detected the crack in a ...

First International Bank & Trust will transition to a new CEO January 1, 2025. S. Peter Stenehjem will succeed his father, Stephen L. Stenehjem, to become the fourth generation to lead the family owned network of banks. FIBT started in 1910 with one bank in (Arnegard) North Dakota. Since then, it has grown to more ...

DECEMBER 24, 2024, UPDATE: Andrew Jondahl of Watertown has been indicted on four charges in connection with an officer involved shooting that occurred Dec. 5, 2024 in the parking lot of the Yankton High School. Jondahl was indicted Friday (Dec. 20, 2024) by a Yankton County Grand Jury. He was indicted on two felony cou...

A Yankton man has been indicted on one count of Second Degree Murder and one count of Manslaughter in the First Degree in connection with the death of a Yankton man. Theodore Kranig, Jr., 19, was indicted Friday (Dec. 20, 2024) by a Yankton County Grand Jury. The Second Degree Murder charge carries a maximum sentence o...

NEW YORK (AP) - A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Since then, it has flown straight through the sun's corona: the outer atmosphere visible during a total solar eclipse. The next milestone: closest a...

DECEMBER 24, 2024: UNDATED (AP)- The battles over abortion in the U.S. are increasingly focusing on the pills that are now the most common way pregnancies are ended. Texas sued a New York doctor this month (Dec. 2024) over a prescription to a Texas resident. It could become the first test of a shield law that New York ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) - Bethlehem prepared Tuesday to mark another somber Christmas in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that typically descends on the Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank on Christmas were nowhere to be found: The festive lights and...

DECEMBER 23, 2024: SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico prosecutors won't pursue an appeal of a court's decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting on a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie, the Santa Fe district attorney's office announced Monday (Dec. 23, 202...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - With a dominant defense leading the way, the Green Bay Packers clinched a playoff berth by producing their most lopsided win in a decade. Josh Jacobs gained 107 yards from scrimmage and scored a touchdown for a sixth straight game as the Packers recorded the first shutout of the NFL season, 34-0 ...

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