Dolly Parton turned 80 on Jan. 19 and Crossroads United Way is celebrating the music icon’s birthday the Dolly way this week, by giving the gift of books ...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 is setting course for the Sea of Monsters, and just like in Season 1, there are ...

n the heart of Independence, Missouri, where presidential history meets everyday Americana, there’s a retail wonderland that ...

It’s been a busy season for Drew and Emily Dawson, who opened Bird’s Bookstore at Preston Road and Royal Lane in September, ...

The Friends of the Sunnyvale Public Library are hosting a book sale Jan. 17-18 in the library’s program room. Sale items ...

Libby Wright, the longtime director of The Giving Tree nonprofit organization, announced this week that she will be retiring from the charity Feb. 1. Wright, who founded the charity, has been the ...

THE MOTHER OF AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT IN ELIZABETHTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT, NOTICED AN INCREDIBLE NEED IN HER COMMUNITY WITH OVER $30,000 IN STUDENT LOAN DEBT. NEWS EIGHT’S BAYLEE MARTIN HAS THE ...

Got mittens? It may be too hot this Christmas in Central Texas to wear them, but you can still donate them. The Georgetown Police Department has a tree in the city's public safety building decorated ...

A family honors their late daughter, Abby Clingan, by gifting her favorite book to kindergarten students. Each year, her family donates copies of "The Giving Tree" to students at her former school.

Members of Brownie Troop 60125 volunteered at the Family Giving Tree warehouse in Sunnyvale on Dec. 7, sorting, wrapping and organizing gifts and getting them ready for bagging for the nonprofit’s ...

As thousands of shoppers pass through the Mall of America, looking for their loved ones’ holiday gifts, Catholic Charities of the Twin Cities hopes some of those shoppers extend some love to strangers ...