Krueger's Christmas Tree Farm of Lake Elmo delivered three holiday trees to the Minnesota Governor's Mansion this week. The state's Christmas tree growers compete annually at the State Fair and the Kruegers' entries were selected reserve grand champion, earning the farm the honor of delivering trees to the governor's mansion in St. Paul. The State Fair grand champion provides the holiday tree ...

Jaylee Fornea, nine-year-old daughter of Jason and Tara Fornea, shot a five-point buck hunting with her dad during the Christmas holidays.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Retail sales in the euro zone tumbled unexpectedly in December, the biggest drop in the Christmas period in three years, data showed on Friday, with rising joblessness and stubborn inflation undercut signs of a stabilization in Europe's economy. Sales across the 17-nation single currency area fell 0.4 percent in December from November, well down from the 0.3 percent rise ...

When you think of Christmas, auto racing might not come to mind. But the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon has turned a mile long race course into a Christmas display featuring more than a million LED lights. NHPR’s Brady Carlson took his family to see the show and has this report. I’m not really a light kind of guy – in fact, the first thing I do when I host All Things Considered is turn ...