Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Cheboygan holiday tradition that has been in place for more than 25 years continues this month with the annual Christmas Card ...

CHICAGO — Dozens of families got freshly cut Christmas trees on Saturday morning thanks to a decades-long Chicago tradition. On Saturday morning, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) celebrated the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The tradition of the Christmas Tree Ship lives on. On Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw delivered more than 1,000 Christmas trees and homemade Christmas cards ...

There was a ceremony today at Navy Pier as 1,200 Christmas trees for the less fortunate were unloaded from the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw, continuing a 26-year tradition with roots dating to more ...

For the past 10 years, the arrival of the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw has marked the beginning of winter and Christmas for me. As the daughter of a Cold War-era Navy captain, I’ve always appreciated ...

CHICAGO -- According to local folklore, little Ruth Erickson's heart sank with the S.S. Rouse Simmons 90 years ago when the ship from Michigan failed to arrive here with its Christmas trees. "Dad, ...

In 1912, the Grinch didn’t ruin Christmas — a tragic shipwreck did. For more than two decades around the turn of the century, a German immigrant named Herman Schuenemann engaged in an unlikely ...