SANTA-ARTIST

OBERLIN, Ohio (AP) -- Keith McGuckin's vision of Christmas isn't dancing sugar plum fairies or eight tiny reindeer. The northern Ohio artist has created a Santa Claus in a wheelchair. And he's being pushed down the stairs by a crazed tree. The Santa in McGuckin's installation has no legs because of an accident involving alcohol and some power lines. It's not the first time McGuckin has created controversy with his Christmas displays. In 2006, he made gingerbread Nazis that drew so many complaints, they were removed from a store window. His current legless Santa is on display at the Oberlin Public Library.

COLOR OF THE YEAR

NEW YORK (AP) -- Say hello to -- yellow. Color experts are predicting yellow will be color of the year for 2009. Leatrice Eiseman of the Pantone Color Institute says sunny yellow will help relieve the current mood of doom and gloom. Expect bright yellow on everything from home appliances to fashions. Designer Michael Kors has already shown a retro yellow polka-dot bikini. Eiseman adds you better get used to seeing yellow in some unexpected places. For the record, "blue iris," a purple-tinged blue, was the 2008 color of the year.

GIANT MOON PIE

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- It's a pie in the sky. Or make that a Moon Pie in the sky. Times Square has its glittering crystal ball to ring in the New Year. In Mobile, Alabama, a giant electric Moon Pie will drop to mark the beginning of 2009. The maker of Moon Pies also promises the world's largest pie for partyers to eat. The exact figures haven't been released. But the bakery is talking about a 60-pound Moon Pie, that's four-feet across. For the uninitiated, Moon Pies are a Southern favorite combining chocolate, graham cracker and marshmallow.

TOSSING THE TWINKIES

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- Tossing your Twinkies isn't the same as losing your lunch. At least not at the University of Montana. Some Grizzlies fans have made it a tradition to toss Twinkies when their team scores a touchdown. Brian Horner says he and his buddies go through about a hundred bucks worth of Twinkies during a game -- that's 40 boxes of the snack cakes. It's now gotten to the point where some of the opposing players actually ask for Twinkies.

RING IN FISH

BUNA, Texas (AP) -- Joe Richardson now knows what happened to the ring he lost while fishing. It ended up in a fish. His class ring dropped into the water about two weeks after his 1987 graduation from a Houston technical school. He recently got a call from a fisherman who found the ring inside of an 8-pound bass caught in Lake Sam Rayburn. Richardson says his first reaction was "you gotta be kidding." Richardson adds he's going to keep the tarnished ring just as it is.