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LENOX, Mass. (AP) — Author Edith Wharton's historic Massachusetts home is finally debt-free, seven years after defaulting on a loan and nearly shutting its doors. The estate in Lenox is known as The Mount, and it includes a house and gardens. It's also a National Historic Landmark.
new hampshire
BOW, N.H. (AP) — An emu famous for running wild through New Hampshire for more than a week has been reunited with its owner and returned home safely to Vermont in the back of a Toyota Prius. The Concord Monitor reports (http://bit.ly/1LX460C) Kermit Blackwood figured it was
Providence
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University has rescinded the honorary degree it granted Bill Cosby, becoming the third university to take such action in less than a week. Brown President Christina H. Paxson says the university's board Friday revoked the doctorate of humane letters it granted Cosby in
new hampshire
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Attention, leaf peepers: New Hampshire has a new foliage tracker aimed at helping visitors plan their `peak' fall adventure. The interactive, mobile-friendly tracker from Visit New Hampshire offers regional reports of the state's scenery, lodging and dining suggestions, points of interest and leaf
New England
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — It has been the year of the whale on Long Island Sound, where fishermen and other boaters have reveled in the return of the marine mammals after a long hiatus. The highly unexpected sightings began in May, when three belugas were spotted off Fairfield, Connecticut. A minke
Massachusetts
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A mutt from a Massachusetts animal shelter who got a new life as a K-9 drug-detection dog stars in an upcoming episode of a new PBS series called "Shelter Me: Partners for Life." The Worcester County sheriff's department in central Massachusetts turned to
Massachusetts
Gov. Charlie Baker made expanded access to charter schools a major theme of his campaign last year but has failed to file legislation to accomplish that goal. Now, on the heels of the filing of a lawsuit by charter advocates, the governor is personally getting behind an effort by ballot
Faith
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge overseeing a trial over control of the nation's oldest synagogue and ceremonial bells worth $7.4 million said on Friday there is no "smoking gun" in the battle between the congregation that worships at the 250-year-old Touro Synagogue in
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