Gingerbread houses for the rest of us
Unless you have a culinary degree, an incredibly steady hand and a few months to spare, you probably won't be able to recreate those breathtaking gingerbread houses that dazzle from bakeshop windows.

Winter activities
It's almost here again. For some people, winter is a horrible time of year. Good for shutting doors and windows, turning up the heat and trying to endure the miserable weather. For others, it's all about having fun despite what the thermometer reads. Here are a few winter activities to stave off the freezing cold.

Smashed school windows 'a mar' for Westport: RCMP
Vandals in a small village on Newfoundland's Baie Verte Peninsula knocked out almost every window in the community's school.

Living Windows kicks off Jefferson City's Christmas season festivities
A chance to view window art that comes to life in downtown Jefferson City returns with all the holiday jazz and excitement. Downtown Living Windows, an outside Christmas party set for next weekend, has an interesting topic that will have young kids buzzing.

Helping educate the community: World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day provides the opportunity to thrust into the spotlight the AIDS epidemic, a disease that has shortened the lives of millions of people, most of whom live in poor countries like Kenya and India. But Kings County, whose population lives on incomes many times that of the Third World, isn't immune from the disease. Dozens of patients annually seek HIV and AIDS treatment from the Kings ...

On the trail of art
On a rainy, gray day, the Weston studio of artist Judy Henderson beckons. Beyond the large glass windows and doors, whimsical sculptures rest atop pedestals and fill the corners, while brightly colored paintings hang on the wall, reflecting her varied artistic styles.

Suspect Arrested for Large-Scale Vandalism in West Haven
Weber County Sheriffs arrested a man for a series of vandalism crimes that have been estimated in upwards of $10,000 dollars in damage. The suspect, Alex Rasmussen, allegedly broke out windows and glass doors to a LDS church on 2350 South and 2700 West. He is also being questioned for possibly breaking several car and house windows near that area.

Hurd Windows Doors to be sold to Longroad Asset Management
MEDFORD Hurd Windows Doors is expected to change ownership before the end of the year, Dominic Truniger, company president, announced in a news release.

Waking up, calming down
Fujitsu is working on a steering wheel-mounted drowsiness sensor that will detect subtle changes in the driver's heart rate and respond with various wake-up calls, including opening the windows, blasting the radio and jolting the wheel. Seriously unconscious drivers might get all three at once. (Here's hoping that sheer surprise doesn't send them off the road.) So What? My first thought when I ...

Demolition to open doors
A Santa Maria nonprofit organization that provides job training and placement for people with disabilities is moving forward on plans for a new 18,260-square-foot building to replace two aging structures on its property that stand in the way of Santa Maria?s plans to extend McCoy Lane west of Blosser Road.

Couple recounts horror during seige in hotel
First came the explosions -- rattling doors and windows all the way up to the 20th floor of the palatial Trident-Oberoi hotel on Wednesday, where Vern Simonson and his wife Donna, both 66, looked at each other and wondered.

Jon Mark Beilue: Town gives back to its own
[GROOM - In Paula Brown's old home with the tin roof on top, the one where most of the windows are boarded with plywood, one little bit of sunlight would sometimes pierce through the cold. When it did, she liked to put her wheelchair in that sliver of sun and sit.

Steel doors work as insulators
Q: My wooden front door leaks air and requires maintenance. I might switch to a steel door for low maintenance and security, but I am concerned about its efficiency. Doesn't steel transmit heat?

Cedar Grove school board reviews windows, doors
Every door and window at Cedar Grove schools, except for the middle school, was scrutinzed in a report given by architect Robert Donahue to the Cedar Grove School Board at the Nov. 11 meeting.

Living Windows kicks off Jefferson City's Christmas season festivities
Some visitors to downtown Jefferson City took carriage rides at last year?s Living Windows event. (Stephen Brooks/News Tribune photo) A chance to view window art that comes to life in downtown Jefferson City returns with all the holiday jazz and excitement.

Advent calendars are popular Christmas tradition
Advent calendars are windows to Christmas, each offering varying views of the season.In their simplest form, tiny paper doors that are part of a colorful scene are opened to reveal a small picture, Bible passage or piece of chocolate. One door is opened each day in December until Christmas.

PHOTOS: Gallery One owner Pam Knauz?s artistic showcases have passers-by taking notice
Every so often these days, in the festive windows of Naples? Gallery One, the head of Pam Knauz pops out from behind the drapes. The art gallery employee will grab a fish bowl ? with a big, live goldfish swimming around ? or restart a movie showing an artist at work. Knauz is the designer behind the eight window displays, unveiled in November, that now showcase Gallery One?s art for the ...

Crumbling South Bronx as a Muse
Ray Mortenson?s photographs of the South Bronx in the early 1980s are featured in a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.

Thieves Target Allen Park For Valuables
Police are warning people in Allen Park to be on the lookout for thieves kicking in back doors and windows to steal valuables. INSIDE: Cheryl Chodun talks to concerned homeowners.

State closes liquor store for 3 days
Shuttered windows and doors at Andy?s Liquor Mart turned away some folks who stopped to buy booze Friday during the long holiday weekend.