Christmas in the News

• Line dancing classes for Christmas Island detaineesAustralian Broadcasting Corporation1 second ago

  The Immigration Minister has faced questioning about whether dance classes are still being offered to asylum seekers on Christmas Island.

• Drunk driver charged with homicide in Lakeville crash on Christmas EvePioneer Press1 second ago

  Prosecutors have filed additional, more serious charges against a Lakeville man in connection with a car crash that killed an 88-year-old Prior Lake man on Christmas Eve. The two new charges are criminal vehicular homicide and criminal vehicular injury.

• Dupree Park awash in damages after Christmas floodJacksonville Patriot1 second ago

  In the aftermath of the Christmas flooding in Central Arkansas, Jacksonville Parks & Recreation Department workers continue to mop up about $25,000 in damage at Dupree Park.

• Lakeville man charged with criminal vehicular homicide in Christmas eve crashKARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul1 second ago

  A Dakota County man already charged with DWI and Child endangerment is now accused of criminal vehicular homicide for his role in a fatal Christmas Eve crash

• Sheen charged in alleged Christmas Day assault on wife in AspenLos Angeles Times13 hours ago

  His wife said that Sheen had pinned her to a bed and held a knife to her throat. He faces up to three years in prison. On Monday, a judge modified a protective order barring him from seeing her. Actor Charlie Sheen was charged Monday in a Colorado court with felony menacing, third-degree assault and criminal mischief, stemming from a Christmas Day incident in Aspen, Colo., in which he allegedly ...

• Christmas Eve fatal crash trial enters 2nd weekAhwatukee Foothills News1 second ago

  Prosecutors rested their case late last week, with laboratory results showing that 32-year-old Christopher Smith had more than eight drinks in his system when he drove the wrong way on Pecos Road and ran head-on into a van on Christmas Eve 2007....

• Suspects in Egypt's Christmas slayings surrenderPark Hills Daily Journal1 second ago

  CAIRO (AP) — Three suspects in a drive-by shooting that killed six Christians in southern Egypt surrendered to police Friday, while authorities faced mounting pressure to resolve the sectarian dispute in the tense community reeling from a bloody Coptic Christmas Eve attack.

• Christmas Day Crotch Bomber tied to Israel, FBIOnline Journal10 hours ago

  The Christmas Day “terrorist” is the latest in a series of staged incidents meant to make The Clash of Civilizations appear plausible and “the war on terrorism” rational.