Float decorations for the 123rd annual Tournament of Roses parade are underway in Pasadena on December 29, 2011 in California. Better known as the Rose Parade, the festival of flower-covered floats takes place every New Year's Day but is moved to a

Undeniably, military might and corporate cachet will be front and center in the Just Imagine Rose Parade. But, immediately following the might and money march comes the occupiers' march — the people's march.

Dozens of floats, all made entirely from flowers and other organic materials, marching bands, cheerleaders and Occupy protesters? This year's Tournament of the Roses parade promises to be a little different. But no worries:

AP LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas teenager who said he wanted to become an organ donor before dying in an apparently random shooting will be honored in the Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif. Aric Brill was killed in an unsolved 2009 shooting outside a Las Vegas

After decades of watching the Rose Parade on television, Verry was behind the scenes at Pasadena's Rose Palace, helping decorate the parade's banner float. It was something she'd flown in from Palm Harbor, Fla., to do. “I've watched this parade every