On a snowy Christmas Eve, an area Christmas tradition once again met a need this holiday season. Read More
A Redding church and adjacent home suffered major damage Monday night in a fire that the owner suspects was started by transients. Read More
"Storybook Quilts" presented by the Denton Quilt Guild and "Blues Chapel" are on display at the Center for the Visual Arts, 400 E. Hickory St. Free. Visit www.dentonarts.com or call 940-382-2787 for more information. 4 to 4:45 p.m. — Game Day at South Branch Library, 3228 Teasley Lane. Free. Call 940-349-8752. 7:30 p.m. — Korean pianists Grace Kim and Soomin Lee perform at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 5500 Morriss Road, Flower Mound, as part of the Lewisville Lake International Chamber Series. Read More
1890 , United States soldiers killed more than 200 Oglala Lakota men, women and children in the Wounded Knee Massacre. 1940 , In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe firebombed London, killing almost 200 civilians. 1975 , A bomb exploded at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 74. 1989 , Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia, becoming the first non-Communist to attain the post in more than four decades. 1997 , Hong Kong began killing all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain. 2001 , A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru killed at least 291 people. Read More
The family of the late Ted Rogers gathered in Toronto Wednesday morning to honour the memory of one of the city's most influential entrepreneurs. Read More
Looking to cut down on delays along its longest streetcar route, the TTC is testing out a five-week pilot project in which the Queen streetcar run is sliced in two. Read More
Jarvis Church is the pseudonym of Gerald Eaton, a Canadian-based artist who already had a couple of impressive musical coups to ... Read the full Jarvis Church bio.