Festive Events

Hundreds of people lined the streets in downtown St. Joseph, Michigan today to pay tribute to area veterans. Dozens of service men and women road in vehicles or walked during the annual parade along Lake Boulevard. The event also featured several high...

Here is a list of some public activities happening over the Memorial Day weekend. Indiana Mishawaka  — The city’s observance will open with a ceremony featuring a cannon salute, Mishawaka High School Band and speakers at 8 a.m. Monday at...

DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) — Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday....

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A second suspect has been arrested in the shooting that injured 20 people at a parade on Mother's Day, police said Thursday afternoon. Shawn Scott, 24, was arrested Thursday, police Chief Ronal Serpas said. He is the brother...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting of nearly 20 people during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, saying several people had identified him as the gunman. Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said...

NILES -- A request Monday night for $2,900 from the city of Niles to support the annual Niles Bluegrass Festival almost ended with festival coordinator Mike Majerek singing the blues. But after considerable discussion regarding the benefits of the 11th...

Organizers worked on the final details before Saturday's Blossomtime Festival Grand Floral Parade in St. Joseph. And as usual, the floats won't disappoint. You'd never know by looking at it... But the St. Joseph float was once an old flatbed trailer....

MOBILE, ALA. -- CBS affiliate WKRG is reporting that a Carnival Triumph cruise ship has broken loose from the port and has drifted across the river. Tow boats are on the scene working to move the ship back to BAE Ship Systems where it was undergoing...

It's the longest running festival in Michigan. The Blossomtime Festival in southwest Michigan is 107 years old and Monday night a new queen will be crowned. The pageants and parade add up to a big economic boost for the area. In 1924, the 1st...

HENRYVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Residents of a southern Indiana town bundled up against the cold for a snowy parade Saturday to celebrate their community's survival one year after deadly tornadoes ripped through the countryside. Hundreds of people...

CHESTERTON, Ind. (AP) — A group that has sponsored a Wizard of Oz Festival in northern Indiana the past four years says it won't be doing so again this year. The Times of Munster reports (http://bit.ly/V3jKnn) that Machelle Blount of the...

Culver Academy students are already in Washington DC to take part in Monday's presidential inauguration parade. But on Saturday morning their horses started making the journey. 90 horses have been loaded into six vans and are now en route to the nation'...