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A special father-daughter dance became a night to remember on November 22 thanks to a ministry working to heal relationships and bring God into prisons across America. 

Christmas got political in Portland, Oregon, on Friday night during the city’s 41st-annual holiday celebration.

A New York City woman who is apparently as tough as nails has been hired to protect a McDonald’s restaurant in Queens from unruly teenagers. 

A huge winter storm has slammed the Midwest, causing traffic snarls and headaches for travelers trying to get home after Thanksgiving.

A proposed law that would dictate nonprofit organizations have the first opportunity to buy residential buildings in New York City is being blasted as “Stalinesque legislation” that would push the Big Apple into a “communist dystopia.”

A Secret Santa in eastern Idaho surprised a young mother recently who has been caring for her teenage daughter after a severe medical issue.

Two grandparents in eastern Idaho got a huge blessing from a Secret Santa recently that will help their family through the Christmas season and beyond.

Four people were wounded when two suspects began shooting at each other during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony around 7:30 Friday night. 

A deputy with Florida’s Indian River County Sheriff’s Office was shot and killed Friday morning while serving an eviction notice. 

A grizzly bear went on a rampage Thursday and attacked a group of students from a tribal elementary school near Canada’s central west coast, leaving 11 people injured, according to emergency officials in British Columbia.

A mother is accused of dumping her newborn baby boy in a trash bag and leaving him outside of an apartment door in the Bronx, police said. 

Things got heated on Tuesday after anti-Islam and pro-Muslim activists clashed in Dearborn, Michigan, and escalated after one anti-Islam protester attempted to burn a Quran, according to a report.

A young mother in eastern Idaho got a huge surprise recently from a Secret Santa who is blessing his community members for Christmas.

An artifact uncovered at the site of an ancient Roman city is offering a glimpse into the day-to-day lives of people 2,000 years ago.

The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office in Minnesota used DNA testing to solve the cold case of “Rachel Marie Doe,” a newborn baby found dead on a roadside in Blaine 42 years ago.

High school students in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, are working to fight infant abandonment by successfully bringing a Safe Haven Baby Box to their community.

Two days of heavy rain in Southern California turned some streets in Long Beach into shallow rivers as some residents took to kayaks in what appeared for some to be more an entertaining novelty than a weather disaster.

A police officer was critically injured during a security motorcade for Vice President JD Vance on Friday in Maryville, Tennessee.

A father in Michigan was charged on Wednesday with murdering his three young sons, who disappeared years ago.

A double-decker bus crashed into a bus stop in Stockholm on Friday, killing three people and injuring three others, police said.

A U.S. Army and Marine veteran from Colorado said his best friend, who happens to be a yellow Labrador, saved his life in February.

A teacher who is also a wife and mother of two young children in Idaho Falls, Idaho, got the surprise of her life recently thanks to a Secret Santa.

A newborn was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box at a fire station in Clermont County, Ohio. 

A woman in Idaho got a huge surprise recently when a Secret Santa heard she was in need of help after a cancer diagnosis.

A father and daughter on their way to Jamaica to help with hurricane relief efforts died Monday when their small plane crashed in Florida. 

A Texas father has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his toddler’s fentanyl death.

A LifeFlight helicopter crash has taken the life of one crew member and put two others in critical condition about 30 miles from Nashville, Tennessee.

Honda is recalling 406,000 of its vehicles due to a manufacturing problem that could cause the wheels to come off while on the road.

A woman is accused of throwing hot coffee on a McDonald’s worker in Buena Vista, Michigan, leaving other customers shocked.

Several people were killed when a driver crashed into them as they enjoyed a night out in a Tampa, Florida, neighborhood early Saturday.

A 43-year-old Illinois mother is accused of getting pregnant and having a child with a 14-year-old boy her daughter took as a date to a junior high dance.

A “Secret Santa” is giving $1 million to deserving people in eastern Idaho this holiday season, announced East Idaho News, which reports and administers the donations from the mysterious anonymous donor in the state.

A massive blast of cold weather is heading down from southwestern Canada and expected to sweep across the eastern United States in the next few days.

It is that special time of year again when a Secret Santa in eastern Idaho spreads Christmas cheer to people in need.