BOISE — Other than sharing the same profession, Ritchie Abromeit has just one thing in common with Bert, the happy-go-lucky chimney sweep in the 1964 film “Mary Poppins”: His hands are filthy. Unlike ...

LOWELL — Today’s chimney sweeps are a lot different from those depicted in the 1910 London of Mary Poppins. The matching outfits? The lavish musical numbers? The cheeky cockney humor? All gone, ...

"Santa Is Stuck in the Chimney" includes sounds of what we can assume are reindeer and elfin associates attempting to extract the right jolly old elf from the chimney. There are no such fun sounds in ...

You don't have to speak with a cockney accent or sing duets with Mary Poppins to be a chimney expert. As proof of that, we've put together a rough guide to all things chimney-related, getting the 411 ...