Retailers enjoyed a strong Christmas with sales growing twice as fast as expected, boosted by online sales of laptop computers and flatscreen televisions.
This past Christmas, a local fire station helped spread the gift of love to children at the Valley Worship Center in Newhall by donating a truckload of toys on Christmas Eve.
Trading updates yesterday from the fashion retailer Next and the department stores chain House of Fraser provided more evidence that it has been an online, upmarket Christmas.
DECATUR - Nicole Depriest graduated from MacArthur High School midyear but couldn't resist coming back - and bringing her 1-year-old daughter, Jakaylah - for the Christmas for Kids party held on Thursday.
While many national retailers were singing the post-Christmas blues Thursday because of disappointing holiday sales, Nordstrom Inc. and Costco Wholesale Corp. were ringing in the new year.
It was a tale of girl power at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey as five festive bundles of joy, born on Christmas Day and New Year's Day to Elmbridge parents, all turned out to be female.
