Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer may be one of the most beloved Christmas stories in history. ... Something had to help Santa on a night like this,” May wrote in the piece. ... May died in 1976, ...

“The Night Before Christmas” originally identified eight reindeer that lead Santa Claus’ sleigh every holiday. And while the poem gendered the reindeer as males, biology tells us that couldn ...

Soon after, on Feb. 20, security footage captured a masked figure jump into Star's enclosure in the darkness of the night and let the 8-year-old male reindeer out onto the streets of Anchorage.

Two years later, the mythology of the reindeer would be expanded. The poem “The Night Before Christmas” was written by Professor Clement Clarke Moore.

Soon after, on Feb. 20, security footage captured a masked figure jump into Star's enclosure in the darkness of the night and let the 8-year-old male reindeer out onto the streets of Anchorage.

Anchorage police are sharing a new photo of someone thought to have poisoned Star, the beloved city-dwelling reindeer that died earlier this month.. In a Facebook post Monday, police officials ...

Albert Whitehead with Star, his pet reindeer, the unofficial mascot of Anchorage, Alaska. Star was nearly stolen from his pen and was poisoned the next night, causing him to become violently ill.