Don't let your holidays be ruined by becoming the victim of a crime. Unfortunately, not everyone out there has a peace-on-earth-good-will-toward-men attitude at this time of year. These tips can help protect your family during the season and after the season as well.

More Holiday Tips:

• Holiday Safety Quiz
  
• Protecting Children During the Holidays
  
• Driving During the Holidays

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The holidays can present potentially dangerous situations for children. We all need to be more careful, prepared and aware during this time of year. Some simple prevention measures can help keep your children safe during the season.

More Holiday Tips:

• Holiday Safety Quiz
  
• Holiday Shopping Safety Tips
  
• Driving During the Holidays

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Investigators are continuing to look for any clues to explain the Dec. 6 disappearance of a 28-year-old stock broker and mother of two from her Utah home. Susan Powell was reported missing when she failed to show up for work Monday, Dec. 7, and police found her purse, cell phone, keys and car at her home.

Powell went missing while her husband, Joshua Powell, took their two sons, ages 1 and 4, on a middle-of-the-night camping trip in the freezing cold. Read more...

A Lafayette, Louisiana man has been charged with the murder of three women in Baton Rouge dating back to 1999 and suspect that he may be involved in several other unsolved murders. Jeffrey Lee Guillory was charged with three counts of second-degree murder.

Guillory has been in jail since March 2008 on an unrelated bank fraud charge involving a stolen ATM card. Read more...