Seasonal Displays Being Looted
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WOODSTOCK, Ill. -- The ranch house here where Marc Moxon and his family live is a sparkling winter wonderland: trees garlanded in glittering lights, illuminated plastic penguins, polar bears and other characters dotting the lawn, even a reindeer-drawn sleigh on the roof.
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The holidays may be over, but the shopping hasn't stopped.
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Bob Lemos of Lemos Farm on Highway 92 near Half Moon Bay is optimistic about the Christmas tree season. He started selling trees last weekend, he said.
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By Rich Landers, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  May 24--Assembling camping gear is a pre-Memorial Day weekend ritual for many Inland Northwesters, but don't stop there.
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A visual recap of the annual pre-Halloween zombie flash mob.
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WELLINGTON, Ohio - An artist who was forced to remove his Nazi gingerbread men from the window of a hardware store has set up the display in an empty storefront in another town. "The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men" depicts a small gathering at a Nazi rally.
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The holiday season typically brings a surge in the number of fraudulent online orders, and smaller online retailers are being hit especially hard this year.
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By Joanie Baker, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Dec. 10--Heating appliances and holiday decorations are just a couple of the reasons the winter months can be a busy time for firefighters.
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 18--Barbecue, bluegrass, pumpkins, apples, monsters and the rather dramatic arrival of jolly ol' St. Nick are on tap this fall at a dozen area festivals.
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By Melissa Vargas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 9--HALTOM CITY -- When a resident near Spring Lake arrived home to  find a brick on her kitchen floor, a shattered window and $5,000 worth of her  belongings gone, she got mad.
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BARTOW, Fla. - When a church group put a nativity scene on public property, officials warned it might open the door to other religious - and not-so-religious - displays. They were right.
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Toy retailers across the country have largely pushed sleds and toboggans off their shelves and out of their catalog pages, victims of warmer weather and the changing taste of children.
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By Greg Avery, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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Police raids in Belfast, Antrim and Down are linked to the seizure of Â£100,000 worth of counterfeit goods at a summer fair.
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Food, friends, and elf figurines add up. Here's some advice on how to handle the holiday tab.
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The realty space is being disrupted.
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THIEVES and vandals have struck in three parts of the Waterside area of Londonderry.   At Campsie Industrial Estate two Dell laptop computers have been stolen from commercial premises. The computers, valued at around pounds 550 each, were taken between 5.30pm on Monday and 7.30am yesterday.