The holiday season often means houseguests. What does it mean to be a good host — or a good houseguest? “Remember the spirit of the holidays. It’s easy to get caught up in wanting everything to be perfect. The point is to have fun, and whether you’re a guest or a host, flexibility and ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Santa has his crew of crafty elves, but those of us living south of the North Pole could use a little help. Sure, your creative friends and loved ones will appreciate a how-to book full of new projects for an existing hobby, or ideas that could spark a new one. But ...

Mermaids and mermen have been “seen” and pictured since the Babylonian era. In past centuries, Greece, Japan, Ireland, Russia and Scotland have believed in local mermaids. There have been exhibits of mermaid skeletons; the 1837 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, “The Little Mermaid”; ...

DALLAS (AP) — Three weeks before his team’s fossil finds were to go on display at one of the world’s most famous natural history museums, Louis Jacobs stood in a basement lab at Southern Methodist University sanding the lower jaw of a 72-million-year-old sea monster. The Dallas Morning ...

“Christmas is the most special time of year. A time when love is more freely given, where special memories are made, where miracles happen. Memories no one can take from you,” are the words Valerie Propheter said. “The greatest gift God gave us is His Son. Then the second most precious ...

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” — Albert Einstein Little Mercury appears very low in the east-southeast dawn sky during the last three weeks of December. It rises above the horizon about 45 minutes before sunrise and glows to the lower left of ...