Christmas Day

A nearly 7-foot-tall monolith made of gingerbread mysteriously appeared on a San Francisco hilltop on Christmas Day and collapsed the next day

The six officers range from a sergeant who has been on the force for more than a decade to a rookie officer who joined 16 months ago

Eversource crews were busy Friday but one said it wasn’t nearnly as bad as they feared.

Wind gusts up to 65 mph were reported in New England Christmas morning as a powerful storm moved through the area just when kids were waking up and opening their presents. The wind will shift east during the afternoon, eliminating the threat for damaging wind for most of New England from midday onward — except for Maine, where strong gusts…

Christmas Day: Downpours and wind – scattered wind damage until late morning, rain lasts all day. Highs near 60. Christmas Night: Chance sprinkle/flurry, chilly breeze. Lows in the 30s. Saturday: Chilly, clouds & sun, flurries. Highs in the 30s, wind chill 20s. Sunday: Sunny. Highs in the 30s.

Although our anticipated Christmas storm is bearing down, Christmas Eve Day is actually a great day for anything planned outside with increasing clouds but high temperatures around and over 50 degrees in Central and Southern New England by afternoon, 40s north, after a few early morning icy patches on Northern New England roads. Showers will expand east into Western New…

Tuesday: Clouds to fair sky. Highs around 40. Overnight Tuesday: Chilly wind, clear sky. Lows around 20, wind chill around 10. Wednesday: Mostly sunny, chilly morning breeze. Highs in the 30s.

Clouds breaking for sunshine in central and southern New England on Tuesday make for a slightly milder and certainly brighter day than recent days, while northern New England finds a disturbance aloft dragging a cold front southward from Canada at ground level, first touching off scattered snow showers in northern New England and then opening the door to a chilly…

Today: Clouds to fair sky. Highs around 40. Tuesday Night: Chilly wind, clear sky. Lows around 20, wind chill around 10. Wednesday: Mostly sunny, chilly AM breeze. Highs in the 30s.

Tonight: Wintry mix ends, patchy black ice and fog, low in the 20s and 30s.
Tomorrow: Fog lifts to mostly cloudy sky, high in the 30s.

Not only will some restaurants stay open, but many will offer special holiday meals, drinks and to-go packages.

Who needs a sleigh when you’ve got a surfboard? Some 600 surfers dressed as Santa chose surfboards instead of sleighs on Tuesday during an annual Christmas Eve surfing fundraiser in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Almost 10,000 spectators also turned out for the 10th Annual Surfing Santas event along Florida’s Space Coast. The surfing fundraiser raised $40,000 for the Florida Surf Museum…

Reenactors will take to the Delaware River on Christmas to recreate George Washington and his troops daring 1776 crossing.

Pope Francis offered a Christmas message of hope Wednesday against darkness that cloaks conflicts and relationships in large parts of the world from the Middle East to the Americas to Africa. The pope told tens of thousands of tourists, pilgrims and Romans gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the annual Christmas Day message that “the light of Christ is...

If someone asked you when the holiday shopping season starts, you’d likely point to Black Friday, when flocks of people swarm stores after a hearty turkey dinner to pick through the hottest deals. But for more people in 2019, holiday shopping started in July. Why? Amazon. Amazon’s annual Prime Day extravaganza has “become a real part of the changing holiday...

They call it the most joyful time of the year, and for good reason: the holidays are a time to join family and friends and share in the things that make life special. But the celebrations and gift-giving aren’t without cost.

Long before he was a music icon in skintight jeans, leather jacket and designer stubble, George Michael was something else — awkward, chubby and insecure. He even went by the very unhip nickname Yog. A loving portrait of a young, striving Michael is offered in a new book by his closest friend and former bandmate, Andrew Ridgeley. His “Wham! George...

Baby, a 15-year-old cat who was adopted after being a hospice resident at a Massachusetts animal shelter, is loving life and no longer needs medication after Bjarna O’Brien welcomed her into her family.

Friday marks Flag Day, which commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States and the birthday of the U.S. Army.

The Los Angeles Lakers announced on Saturday that LeBron James will miss the remainder of the season.