Local merchants at Portland Saturday Market sell handmade arts and crafts. The market is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays, and from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sundays, until Christmas Eve.

British Bobbies on the beat got gnomes at their feet. A police department in northeast England recruited a crack team of 10 crime-fighting garden gnomes — dressed as officers — to clean… ...