LOS ANGELES – A Nativity scene in Santa Monica will be sticking around this holiday season on private property. On Monday, Nativity Scenes Committee Chairman Hunter Jameson told the L.A. Times that ...

It's not that often that my beloved Santa Monica finds itself in the news – both locally and nationally. But here it is. Today's LA Times headline reads "Santa Monica can bar Nativity Scenes." This ...

LOS ANGELES – For years, parks in Santa Monica, Calif., have been dotted with Nativity scenes during the holidays. But that likely won’t happen this year. A judge said she would not approve a bid to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Late Friday afternoon Santa and Mrs. Claus made an appearance in Orrville when the city started the Christmas season with its 25th ...

The Santa Monica City Council has banned all future nativity, anti-nativity and Chanukah displays at the oceanfront Palisades Park. The 5-0 vote on June 12 ends a nearly 60-year winter tradition. The ...

The battle over nativity scenes in Santa Monica – the subject of a federal court ruling last month – took a new turn Saturday when a group staged a reenactment from scenes of Bethlehem with live ...

A federal judge on Monday denied a bid by churches to compel the city of Santa Monica to keep a nativity display that had been a community tradition for 60 years. U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins ...

How do you feel about having live camels as a part of a nativity scene?” Rev. Lloyd Saatjian, previous senior minister of the First United Methodist Church, asked one of the church trustees about this ...