Thanksgiving News

Tributes will be paid to Neslon Mandela at a service of thanksgiving for the life of the former South African president today.

The following is a transcript of emails, illegally recorded by federal eavesdroppers, between XJ3516, a member of Taystee Turkey Farm in Salisbury, Maryland, and Tom, a member of Wattles Unlimited, a Shelter Island-based turkey social group.

I don't want my children to grow up hating others because they are not like them, I don't want any child in Israel growing up believing that no alternative to this kind of separation and hate is possible.

Two Los Angeles police detectives went door-to-door Friday in a search for clues in the shooting death of TV writer-director James Marcus Howe at his Glassell Park neighborhood home.

Carlos Morales, of Gainesville, Florida, shot this photograph while vacationing in Charleston, South Carolina.

Humboldt County authorities continue to investigate the Thanksgiving Day kidnapping and shooting of a southern Humboldt man.

Three family members Esperanza Navarro, left, Yadira Lopez, center, and Jesse Lopez, right, from Oakley sit together surrounded by all their shopping items they purchased at Sun Valley Mall on Black Friday in Concord, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 29, 2013.

DOVER , Del.- Preliminary reports from law enforcement agencies indicate that it was a relatively "quiet" Thanksgiving weekend in Delaware with nine people arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and or drugs, according to the state Office of Highway Safety.

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act encouraged people to promote health insurance at Thanksgiving family gatherings.

The search resumed on Tuesday morning for a missing single-engine plane that disappeared in central Idaho with a San Jose executive and his family.

Because of heavy snowfall in northern New Mexico, Taos Ski Valley is moving up its date for switching to seven-day-a-week operations.

Fast-food workers in hundreds of U.S. cities staged a day of rallies on Thursday to demand higher wages, saying the pay was too low to feed a family and forced most to accept public assistance.

OREGON CITY, Ore. The Federal Bureau of Investigations and Clackamas County SWAT members on Thursday joined police and sheriff's deputies in their search for a 13-year-old runaway who could be in danger.

Billboard.com says his new box set, Blame It All On My Roots , is opening at number one on the Country Albums chart, with 164,000 copies sold in just four days.

I'm a 43-year-old American Christian male with two kids in " the sweet spot ," a lovely faithful wife, and a major crush on Christmas.

He noted the rare quirk in the calendar that overlapped Thanksgiving with the start of eight-day Jewish holiday.

A proposal to adjust Ohio's renewable energy and efficiency mandates stalled for a second time on Wednesday amid opposition from environmental and consumer interests and some majority Republican lawmakers.

The day after Thanksgiving, we spoke with SZA, the Top Dawg Entertainment-signed songstress with an ethereal voice.

Ron Deatrick serves food during last Thursday's Thanksgiving meal hosted by the Deatrick family.

The studio announced Wednesday that the film will shut down "for a period of time so we can assess all options available to move forward with the franchise."