LOS ANGELES – Hollywood has outdone itself on Christmas spirit. Studios typically offer two or three holiday-themed flicks toward year’s end. This season brings a half-dozen movies with Christmas angles, from romance and horror to family comedy and religious drama.
TAUNTON - A mother and daughter whom police said were accepting stolen goods in exchange for drugs were arraigned in District Court on Thursday morning and back on the street - the mother on $1,000 bail, the daughter into the custody of her grandparents - by lunchtime.
NEW YORK -- Manhattan's store windows are being transformed into winter wonderlands again -- and retailers hope they will put shoppers in a spending mood.
JAMESTOWN -- The latest, and probably last, of Bruce Sundlun's many homes occupies the crest of a hill overlooking Narragansett Bay. On this pleasant afternoon, the sun casts the property in shades of gold. Gulls dot the sky. A breeze brings the...
JAMESTOWN -- The latest, and probably last, of Bruce Sundlun's many homes occupies the crest of a hill overlooking Narragansett Bay. On this pleasant afternoon, the sun casts the property in shades of gold. Gulls dot the sky. A breeze brings the wind chimes on the porch to life.
Make way, De Beers. The diamond industry you helped create is bigger than ever. The world's explosion of wealth has something to do with it. As the rich get richer (114 new faces joined Forbes magazine's annual billionaires list this year), their appetite for flashy jewels seems insatiable.
Johann Panchelbel's Canon in D and subdued lighting greet visitors who venture through the 2-foot-thick, reinforced steel doors of the Lester and Sue Smith Gem Vault at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Cocktail rings — first popular in the 1940s and 1950s as a way to show off at cocktail parties — are staging a comeback this holiday season. The rings, which sport big colorful gems, can be found everywhere, real and fake, from Tiffany's to Macy's and even at Walmart.com.