• Actress sees role in "It's a Wonderful Life" as part of divine plan
It is an iconic moment in American holiday life: The little girl tells her father at the end of the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" that "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."

• Mumbai violence touches Northeast Ohio
As people around the world continue to mourn the terrorist casualties in India, they will be joined today by a Jewish congregation in Solon. A rabbi at the temple lost a member of his extended family in the violence.

• Artist Debra Classen of The Mute Swan finds healing in her spiritual journey
Debra Classen's spiritual quest began in the midst of incredible grief and boundless joy.

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Christmas story tours

• Resist the urge to judge others in the midst of road rage
One of the first in side stories to make the rounds at the New Haven Register in Connecticut after a highway bridge collapsed in 1983 was of a valiant effort to prevent greater tragedy by occupants of some of the first cars able to stop short.

• Sister Diane Therese Pinchot of Ursuline College is arrested at protest
An Ursuline College art professor says the spirit of her fallen fellow nun slain in El Salvador guided her footsteps as she walked onto the grounds of Fort Benning in Georgia last Sunday.