started out the christmas week with a pretty big apartment fire. a few famillies were displaced but luckily no one was injured. the blaze started at 4 a.m., so I didn't get to the scene until later on that morning.


Tessa Glenn, stands in front of her neighbor's devastated apartment at 1801 W. Worley Street in Columbia. Glenn's apartment, to the right, was also burned in the two-alarm blaze that started at 3:45 a.m. Glenn and her two children were away from hoome the night of the fire.


Yarco employee Jim Bailey looks out of the burned second story window of Apt# 16D at 1801 W. Worley Street. The Yarco company owns the apartment complex and spent all day Saturday cleaning up and assisting residents with emergency housing.


with nothing scheduled for christmas eve, i went out to a local church's first live nativity.


Meredith Grant, 10, adjusts a head scarf for her father Kyle Grant who played Joseph.


Anna Cox, left, and father George, right, warm their hands by a wood-burning stove in between nativity performances at Midway Locust Grove United Methodist Church




christmas day i went on the post-present feature hunt. Madison was enjoying her new Jeep in the front yard with a huge smile on her face.


Madison Higginbotham, 5, listens to the radio as she drives her new Barbie Jeep around her front yard in west Columbia. Dad Brian said it took "Santa" over an hour to assemble the Jeep in time for Christmas morning.