NEW YORK – Retail Web sites kept amping up the deals Monday, the first day after the Thanksgiving holiday, to try to maintain the long weekend’s strong online sales. Click to enlarge In this Nov. 16, 2009 photo, Stephen Guymon, left, of Twin Falls read more

Operation Christmas Child was collecting shoeboxes last week for world wide distribution to children in less fortunate areas of the world. As of Saturday morning the have collected 1062 shipping boxes with an average of 14 shoeboxes in each shipping read more

bringing 1,262 boxes, and they’d convinced another church to come along with them and bring 170 more. Mark Ashley Mark Ashley – Leah Noble, left, and Victoria Graves, both 11 years old and from Lexington, arranged shoeboxes into shipping boxes read more

Ford organizes the year-round donation drive into five mailings a year, shipping boxes of packages for Valentine’s Day, Easter and two times in the summer, along with the special, overflowing stockings for Christmas. Since 2004, the operation has read more