The Little Elm Area Food Bank board and volunteers took time to say thank you and honor major contributors to the food bank before beginning the distribution of Christmas food baskets on Saturday.

Daisy Girl Scout Troop 98 and Brownie Girl Scout Troop 643, of Madrid, recently gathered together for an annual service project event. This year’s project aimed to benefit homeless new mothers helped by Youth & Shelter Services of Boone County. The Daisy Girl Scouts made fleece-tie baby blankets and the Brownie Girl Scouts added the blankets to gift baskets filled with baby items such as diapers ...

Why do I have so many presents?Dear Editor:The community’s generous donations to Family to Family provided wonderful holiday gift baskets for 75 foster care and special needs families this year -- our ninth season! Baskets loaded with thoughtful gifts, free passes and gift cards blessed many children who were not home for the holiday. Often, these items were their only gifts.In addition to ...

Almeria Middle School donated 15 food baskets to needy families of Almeria students on Dec. 18. Assistant Principal Kim Bente organized the drive along with Debbie Simpson, Jessica Cifelli, Fred Conklin, Cheri Ramos, Maria Quintero, Juli Iniguez, and Peggy Sharp.

In its 28 years of operation, local charity Angel Baskets has transformed from a tiny do-good operation into a well-oiled generosity machine.

The number of West Shore families in need tripled this holiday season, as the West Shore Food Bank and its friends provided gifts to more than 240 families.

I don’t expect much good news when I open mail from my credit-card company, but recently I received a notice that bore good tidings related to fees, grace periods and other policies. I nearly took a double take. Santa is delivering financial gifts!

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who has received huge contributions in her race for governor, is now calling for limits on the size of campaign donations in Texas, where enormous cash gifts are commonplace.

From cosmology to children's picture-books, our reviewers give a guide to the best of the publishers' lists for the first six months of the new year JANUARY Fiction The first big novel of the year is Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence (Faber), both a tale of obsessional love and a stunning panorama of Istanbul society rich and poor, traditional and westernised, over the past ...

By: Anna Helland | News reporter Survey shows holiday sales improved by 3.6 percent in 2009 Most of the nation was on Santa’s “nice list” this year, or at least that’s what reports indicate, based on an increase in 2009 holiday sales compared with last year. Survey results from MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse sho...

Nkoranza (B/A) Jan. 6, GNA - Miss Agartha Osei, Nkoranza District Girls Education Officer, has cautioned school girls to be wary of men who offered them gifts and money to lure them into sex.

When Katharine Hibbert lost her job and her flat she didn't just downsize – she decided to dispense with money altogether, living on the stuff the rest of us throw away I was sitting in a park, feeling sick. I'd left my job, packed my possessions away and given up my rented flat. My plan had been to find a squat and some food dumped by a shop or a cafe to eat, and to see how long I could survive ...