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Staff Writer T-L Photo/CARRI GRAHAM Cars fill the Ohio Valley Mall parking lot while many do some last minute shopping Thursday afternoon. ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Ohio Valley Mall had one of its busiest shopping days of the year last weekend and expects the busy streak to continue after Christmas. Joe Bell, spokesperson for the mall’s parent company Cafaro Co., said the mall’s “Super Saturday” event held Dec. 19 was the mall’s busiest day of the year, surpassing Black Friday. “Super Saturday was extremely busy, busier than Black Friday. There are always a lot of last minute shoppe...

But pastors say the holiday still means the same even if people can't be together. "The whole day has been thrown off because as a pastor, most of our Christmas Eves are wrapped around us getting ready for services and today has been low key," said Brad Barbour, pastor of the Soul Church in Raleigh. His church rented part of Transfer Food Hall six weeks ago, put a service together and streamed it "live" Thursday night. "All of 2020 for us has been a reminder of what's really important," Barbour said. "Christmas is a season of love and that's what we love: friends and family getting to do thos...

Christmas Eve is the most wonderful night of the year for Polish Catholics and when I walked to the local Polish grocery store this morning, the place was packed with people waiting to pick up meat at the butcher's counter for tonight's feast. Traditionally, Christmas Eve is a meatless meal, with twelve courses - one for each month of the year. But there was plenty of kielbasa, wrapped up in brown butcher's paper for the trip home. "I'm new to the neighborhood. Is there a Midnight Mass anywhere?" I asked the woman standing in line ahead of me. (She looked just like my Aunt Agnes, my godmother...

Hiker spends Christmas Eve dressed as an elf on Smokies trails For five years, Eric Bailes has hiked trails in the Smokies dressed in various Christmas outfits, all with the goal to spread joy. Author: Katie Inman Updated: 8:16 PM EST December 24, 2020 GATLINBURG, Tenn — A Knoxville man's Christmas tradition is full of holly jolly hiking on trails in the Smokies. Eric Bailes has spent the last five Christmas Eves trotting the trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, dressed as a festive character. Bailes said it all started when he was a sophomore a...

BBC News By Chris Andrews image copyrightMirrorpix/Getty Images image captionCrowds gathered outside Belfast City Hall in June 1921 for the opening of NI's first parliament The front pages on Christmas Eve 1920 lacked the usual festive cheer, instead focused on a political story which would shape a century of Irish politics. The previous day, parliament was told that the Government of Ireland Act had received royal assent, legislating for the partition of the island. By design, Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland (later to become known as the Irish Free State) would have their own parliamen...