On Christmas, a robber took off with a cinnamon bun that resembles the late Mother Teresa. Bongo Java coffee shop owner Bob Berenstein went to his store that morning to find the world-famous pastry missing, but a jar of money next to it was not taken, reports The Associated PressBernstein said he believes the so-called Nun Bun was taken by someone who is angry over the shop displaying the pastry, which had been preserved with shellac. "They went right for the bun," he said. "Unfortunately I think it's somebody who wanted to take it to destroy it. "

Time Magazine has named its Persons of the Year and the three people on this year's cover are honored for being good Samaritans. The magazine says the trio is changing the way people feel about charity. Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, were named Time magazine's "Persons of the Year" along with Irish rocker Bono for making a difference in different ways. Managing Editor James Kelly said the three had been chosen as the people most effective at finding ways to eradicate such calamities as malaria in Africa, HIV and AIDS and the grinding poverty that kills 8 million people a year. Time also named former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton as "Partners of the Year" for their humanitarian efforts after the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, and the unlikely friendship that developed from that work.

Shoppers are crowding the malls as they wrap up their Holiday gift buying. Electronics are the big buy for gifts as retailers mark the last week of holiday season shopping with hopes of high sales. Today is what's known in the retail world as "Last Saturday," the final Saturday before Christmas. Dec. 24 falls on a Saturday, but most malls and national chain stores will close early that day because it's Christmas Eve.

More people are turning drive time into talk time. An increasing number of drivers are turning their cars into personal phone booths, with a million and a half drivers talking on cell phones at any given time. Women and young people are the most common users. About 10 percent of the people on the road during the day are using cell phones, up from 8 percent in 2004, the government reported Thursday. Six percent of drivers were holding the phones to their ears, up from 5 percent last year.

Groundbreaking comedian Richard Pryor, whose stand-up routines about race, sex and life made him a modern day icon, is dead. He was 65. Pryor died after being rushed to a hospital from his home shortly after 8 a. m. Pryor had suffered from multiple sclerosis, a disease of the nervous system.