New Year's Eve

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With the upcoming New Year's holiday falling on a weekend this year, there's greater concern that accidents from impaired driving could increase in New Jersey.

A 26-year-old ex-convict pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to plotting a New Year's Eve machete attack at a Rochester restaurant in the name of the Islamic State terrorist group.

In Bangkok, police-flanked partygoers will ring in the new year at the site of a deadly bombing that took place just months ago. In Paris, residents recovering from their city's own deadly attacks will enjoy scaled-back celebrations. And in Belgium's capital, authorities anxious after thwarting what they say was a holiday terror plot have canceled festivities altogether.

With the nation still jittery over shooting massacres in California and Paris, New York City officials sought to assure revelers Tuesday that the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square will be the safest place in the world -- heavily secured by thousands of New York Police Department officers, including a new specialized counterterrorism unit.

Netflix is becoming a parent's best friend on New Year's Eve. The video service has come up with a brilliant video that is going to help parents let their kids celebrate the New Year's Eve countdown and still get them to bed at a decent hour.

Want to get in the spirit of things as we get ready to ring in 2015? Here's an amazing video that looks back at almost 40 years of the ball dropping in Times Square.

NEW YORK (AP) -- When Taylor Swift released the Grammy-winning, banjo-tinged "Mean" in 2010, haters fired shots at the then-20-year-old. Four years later, Swift says she's grown and was able to write her new single `Shake It Off' about others dissing her from a new perspective.

Stuart Edge closed out 2013 and started New Year's Eve better than most with some amazing card tricks that won him a bunch of kisses from some lovely ladies in Times Square.

When most people think of New Year's Eve, they picture the giant glass ball dropping in Times Square to ring in the New Year.