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07/19/11 NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA champion Dallas Mavericks will open the season - if it begins on time - at home on Nov. 1 against MVP Derrick Rose and Chicago, then host Miami in a finals rematch Christmas Day.
07/07/11 You've undoubtedly heard of the Christmas Day bird count that the folks at the Audubon Society promote each year.
06/30/11 BISMARCK - For North Dakota's oil and gas producing counties, Thursday was like waking up on Christmas Day and finding out how generous Santa was this year.
06/30/11 Portsmouth is hoping to reopen the Main Library in four months, after it was damaged by an arsonist on Christmas Day.
06/17/11 TC OKEECHOBEE BATTLE. The largest battle between the U.S. Army and native peoples fought east of the Missippi River, will be re-enacted Feb. 5 and 6, at the new Historic Battlefield State Park on the northeast shore of Lake Okeechobee. Fought 173 years ago on Christmas Day 1837 between the Army lead by Col. (Later President) Zachary Taylor and about 400 warriors of the Seminole Nation, Re ...
06/02/11 Investigators believe Duane Haley, 47, and Judy Britton, 43, killed Hamadi Swei while robbing the man on Christmas Day 2010.
06/02/11 Two people formerly from the Shamokin area are in custody in Virginia in connection with a Christmas Day murder in Texas.Duane Allen Haley, 47, a registered sex offender, and Judy Britton, 43, who was charged last fall with stealing from her Shamokin em
06/01/11 The men of the 165th New York Volunteer Regiment hardly seemed dressed for battle. They wore tasseled fezzes, red balloon pants and white spats, along with ornamental cloth jackets, which made for a strange sight when they took the field at Hilton Head on Christmas Day 1862.
05/11/11 Like many people, Michelle Sathe didn't know much about pit bulls when Sam entered her life on Christmas Day several years ago. The skinny, stray dog followed Sathe's own pack on a walk at a nearby park in Southern California known for being a dumping ground for unwanted pooches.
05/05/11 A Dutch engineer admitted the manslaughter of his neighbour Joanna Yeates but pleaded not guilty to murder yesterday. The parents of the young landscape architect, whose frozen body was found beneath snow on Christmas Day, after she disappeared following a night out with colleagues in Bristol, were at the Old Bailey to hear Vincent Tabak enter his pleas.
04/21/11 The Illinois Supreme Court Thursday reinstated the conviction and sentence of a man for aggravated driving under the influence of drugs in connection with a Peoria County accident which killed two people in 2004. According to the Illinois Supreme Court website, Aaron Martin was convicted and sentenced to 6 years in prison following a Christmas Day crash on Route 29 which killed Jacqueline Harman ...
04/19/11 The defending Super Bowl champions will play on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day -- the first team in NFL history to pull off that trifecta -- in 2011.
03/30/11 A Maryland man was sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday after pleading guilty in the kidnapping death of an 11-year-old Salisbury girl whose body was found Christmas Day 2009. Thomas James Leggs Jr., a convicted sex offender, pleaded guilty in a Cecil County courtroom to all charges in the murder of Sarah Haley Foxwell. He received two consecutive sentences of life without parole ...
03/29/11 A Maryland man has pleaded guilty in the kidnapping death of an 11-year-old Salisbury girl whose body was found on Christmas Day 2009.
03/07/11 Carol Blades' body was found Christmas Day 1970 in Ponce de Leon. Detectives will tell you a cold case often haunts them until its solved. Lately, in the Ozarks, we've seen some cold cases completed. Others have fallen out of the public's eye because of the passage of time or a lack of evidence. For others, just a few sets of fresh eyes might not hurt.
03/06/11 This past Christmas Day, the Daily Local News published a story of mine titled, "The Christmas When I Was Rich." It told of my father's kind and forgiving nature when, as a 10-year-old, I lost a $10 bill he had given me as a pre-Christmas gift.
03/03/11 The curious case of James Cialella came to a close yesterday when a Philadelphia judge sentenced the Iraq War Army veteran to house arrest and probation for shooting a fellow moviegoer on Christmas Day 2008.
02/23/11 More information is expected to be released Thursday about the mental health of the suspect charged in a local double murder. A judge appointed a third doctor to evaluate 20-year-old Andrew Downs, because the first two doctors were split on Downs' mental state. He is accused of killing two women in Santa Margarita back on Christmas Day. On Thursday, the third doctor is scheduled to deliver ...
02/12/11 (02-12) 13:30 PST San Francisco, CA (AP) -- A female Siberian tiger killed in a hail of police gunfire after fatally mauling a man at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day 2007 likely was provoked into leaping and...
02/08/11 Four of the five suspects in the Christmas Day vandalism spree at a popular Christmas-themed store in mid-Michigan have agreed to plea deals, and the fifth is working on a plea agreement.
02/06/11 A slain boss. A Christmas Day tragedy. Now two barbers have opened a new shop on their own. | 
