A Queens mom was fatally struck by two separate cars in a tragic Christmas hit-and-run just steps from her home – as her distraught son rushed to her side and urged her to keep breathing.

It may be summer, but in the mountains of western North Carolina, it's already beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

With a Christmas tree grower’s eye honed over decades, Paul Alan Shealer examined a nearly eight-foot-tall Douglas fir Monday ...