Dec. 14, 2025

Police round up one of Santa's reindeer

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Grapevine, Texas, has been named the Best Christmas Town in America, drawing 2 million visitors annually with its festive celebrations. Hershey Park's Christmas Candy Lane won USA Today's award for best theme park holiday event. Country Living's 25 best Christmas books of 2025 include diverse genres from romance to mystery. One of Santa's reindeer was rescued after escaping a Christmas event, thanks to a coordinated effort by police, the Royal Marines, and a lifeboat team. Lastly, Johnny suggests Gen Z beauty and self-care stocking stuffers like Tick toy Serum lotion, Salt & Stone natural deodorant, and a smartphone ring light.

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Caalaroka Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Now you're like Johnny Mack, you just

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told us Buffalo is the best Christmas town in America.

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You're not going to change that on us. Look, I'm

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not the one doing the surveys. Here's another one. The

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Dallas suburb of Grapevine has been named the best Christmas

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Town in America. Officially designated the Christmas Capital of Texas

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by the States Centered back in two thousand and nine,

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Grapevine draws about two million visitors a year and hosts

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more than forty days of holiday celebrations. Newsweek ranked the

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town number one in its reader's choice list. Family skate

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outdoors beneath a towering live tree, They ride the North

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Pole Express on the Grapevine Vintage Railroad, and they browse

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artists in markets and boutique shops. With parades, pop ups,

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and photo ops across town. It's walla wall merriment with

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small town warmth and big stage sparkle. Other finalists include

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San Antonio and Fredericksburg, Texas, Santa Claus, Indiana, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,

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and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, which is where you'll find Dolly

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Parton's Dollywood Good News. If you're me and you like chocolate.

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Hershey Park Christmas Candy Lane was named a winner in

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USA Today's ten Best Readers' Choice Travel Award contest for

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best Theme Park Holiday Event. A holiday tradition for more

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than forty years, and I've been there many times. Hershey

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Park Christmas Candy Lane runs on select dates through January fourth,

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with daily operations starting on the eighteenth. They are closed

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on Christmas Day, though five million lights, including the Noel

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Lights Show synchronized to holiday music, along Spring Creek seven coasters,

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and select family rides, the all new Twinkling Through Time

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Holiday Show. Inside it the heated Music Box theater. That's

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a legit theater. Like I get why they're telling you

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it's heated. It's a building. You would be shocked if

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it weren't heated. I'll put it that way. In the

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Treeville Trail, located around the East Coast Waterworks in the

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Boardwalk water Park, with more than twenty five uniquely decorated

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tree sharing stories of the sweetest place on Earth. By

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the way, if you go out to Hershey, get the shake.

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The shake is amazing The shake might be one hundred

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and forty three thousand calories, but once a year you

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gotta get one. Let's take a look at Country Living's

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twenty five best Christmas books of twenty twenty five. They

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include The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year. That's by

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Ali Carter. It's a flirty Holiday, Who've Done It? For

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Fans of Knives out, Emily Stone's Always in December, a

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tear jerking romance about love, loss and fate. Royal Holiday

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by Jasmine Gilroy is a feel good royal romance set

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in London. Comfort and Joy by Kristin Hannah as a

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moving fable of healing and new beginnings. And a Christmas

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Appeal by Janis Hallett is a clever small town murder

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mystery sold through emails and transcripts. Good News we caught

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one of Sanda's reindeer. Yeah, one of the reindeer escaped

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from a Christmas event. They had to even call in

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the Royal Marines. The police were tracking the reindeer's movements

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throughout the area, but they lost track of the animal

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as night fell well. The Rescue Trust lifeboat team even

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joined in. The lifeboat team was able to use thermal

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binoculars to locate the reindeer on the beach officials let

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us know. Although capture proved difficult, the team successfully shepherded

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the animal into the sand dunes, where a police drone

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maintain watch. The reindeer eventually settled, allowing a vet to

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safely secure it return it to Santa. Will be good to

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go on Christmas Eve. Don't you worry about that? Are

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you struggling for gift ideas? Today's segment is gin Z

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Beauty and self care stocking stuffers. How about the Tiktoki

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Serum lotion Hybrid. That's right, it's Glazing Milk, a hydrating,

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slightly milky liquid that makes skin look dewy and less said.

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It works under makeup or on its own. Thirty two

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bucks at Sephora. How about a deodorant that looks like

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a design object. It's the Salt and Stone natural deodorant,

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which comes in various sense. We're told it's aluminum free,

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sleek as l smells like a fancy hotel spa instead

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of a locker room. Twenty bucks at Saltonstone dot com.

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Maybe you just need a clip on smartphone ring light,

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a rechargeable ring light that clips over the top of

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the phone and instantly makes zoom calls, selfies and whatever. GRWMS,

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what's that? Group messages? I don't know what that is.

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I'm old. What is grwb? The Internet's Telling Me stands

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for get Ready with Me, a popular social media trend

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where creators film themselves doing their daily routines like makeup

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and choosing outfits or preparing for an event, often chatting casually, Okay,

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you live and learn. I'm wearing sweatpants and a baseball

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cap as I talk to you right now, So that's

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not a good gift for me, but maybe for somebody else.

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Thirty bucks on Amazon. Those are your five good News

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Christmas stories for today. I have a great day.