Details: The choir performed a new arrangement of Carol of the Bells, a song based on Shchedryk by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych, at Westminster Abbey. "It was a great honour for our choir to ...

Chesapeake City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to rename Oak Grove Lake as the Officer Timothy Schock Memorial Lake, honoring a police officer who died in the line ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill, who will be defending the Ten Commandments law, has stated that she believes it's constitutional and looks forward to making that case before the Fifth Circuit.

The well-known Christmas carol, “Carol of the Bells,” has quite a remarkable history. It’s difficult to believe that a Christmas carol with such a joyous tone originated more than a century ago in ...

Did you know that Carol of the Bells comes from Ukraine? Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych wrote Shchedryk in 1916, originally as a winter folk song. The Ukrainian National Chorus brought the carol ...

But it’s the historic repetition of that Ukrainian folk song over centuries - the one Americans know as “Carol of the Bells” that’s especially poignant and heartbreaking for a nation at war. “It’s ...

It started as “Shchedryk,” a song about a little bird that was first performed in the United States in 1922. Its enchanting melody has since been sung by Beyoncé and Barenaked Ladies. By Rob LeDonne ...

Slidell city leaders decided the annual Christmas Under the Stars celebration needed a centerpiece, so they brought in a 16 foot Christmas tree. It turned out great, but getting the tall tree in place ...