No drawn butter will ever touch Fiona's tail. She's an extremely rare, seven-year-old "yellow" lobster.
Short on cash, people are offering to paint houses and balance books in exchange for a free room or flight. Here's how three creative travelers pulled it off.
The father of Philip Markoff's bride-to-be says his daughter prays this is a mistake
I'm done. I'm done with cooking and cleaning for family guests, with giving presents I'm not even sure anyone wants.
Was it a theft? A prank? A roundabout effort to bring some holiday cheer to the police? Authorities in Harwich, Massachusetts, are probing the mysterious appearance of a piano, in good working condition, in the middle of the woods.
But community leaders are working to protect what is left of the fishing industry and preserve a way of life in towns like Gloucester
Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy returned to Washington Tuesday for the first time since July, following an operation for a brain tumor in June, his spokesman said.
As if it weren't bad enough that home prices are going down (way down), the cost of homeowners insurance is also moving in the wrong direction: up (in some areas, way up).
Five Massachusetts men became the first divers to reach the wreck of a 19th-century steamship that sank in one of the most destructive storms in New England history, and say they saw an array of artifacts like dishes and mugs but no human remains
His office says effects from a change in medication led to 911 call
No drawn butter will ever touch Fiona's tail. She's an extremely rare, seven-year-old "yellow" lobster.
Short on cash, people are offering to paint houses and balance books in exchange for a free room or flight. Here's how three creative travelers pulled it off.
The father of Philip Markoff's bride-to-be says his daughter prays this is a mistake
I'm done. I'm done with cooking and cleaning for family guests, with giving presents I'm not even sure anyone wants.
Was it a theft? A prank? A roundabout effort to bring some holiday cheer to the police? Authorities in Harwich, Massachusetts, are probing the mysterious appearance of a piano, in good working condition, in the middle of the woods.
But community leaders are working to protect what is left of the fishing industry and preserve a way of life in towns like Gloucester
Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy returned to Washington Tuesday for the first time since July, following an operation for a brain tumor in June, his spokesman said.
As if it weren't bad enough that home prices are going down (way down), the cost of homeowners insurance is also moving in the wrong direction: up (in some areas, way up).
Five Massachusetts men became the first divers to reach the wreck of a 19th-century steamship that sank in one of the most destructive storms in New England history, and say they saw an array of artifacts like dishes and mugs but no human remains
His office says effects from a change in medication led to 911 call
Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, was taken by ambulance to a hospital Friday near his Cape Cod vacation home after complaining of feeling ill but returned home a few hours later
Miriam Brown has always wanted to visit Cape Cod, but when she recently began to plan a trip and found out she would have to pay $200 or more a night for lodging, her dream vacation seemed out of reach.
U.S. government scientists are one step closer to publishing a rule aimed at protecting the endangered right whale from ship strikes.
NAME: Charles A. Donadio Jr., CEO
Four food manufacturers agreed to reduce levels of a cancer-causing chemical in their potato chips and french fries under a settlement announced Friday by the state attorney general's office
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy checked out of a hospital Monday to return home to Massachusetts, a week after undergoing an aggressive and delicate surgery to treat a cancerous brain tumor, a hospital spokeswoman said
"I know he's planning for the future," says the ailing senator's son, Patrick Kennedy
He's being released from the hospital and will travel to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport
Doctors say the 76-year-old Senator did not suffer a stroke. But now they must figure out what caused his seizure
Reports that he had a seizure do not preclude that it was a stroke as well, especially given his medical history
Three years ago, while writing for Fortune's sister publication Money, I embarked on what seemed like an oxymoronic (or maybe just moronic) quest: to find affordable beach houses at a time of real estate insanity. Beachfront prices were soaring, which made my mission - finding vacation getaways right on the ocean for less than $500,000 - seem like a long shot.
Most members of Congress call them earmarks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to get them called "legislatively directed spending." But for almost every American taxpayer I've run into over the last year, it's called "pork" and it's not very tasty.
It's two days before we leave for a trip out West and my husband can't find his hiking boots. And he's not worried in the least.
Dreaming that falling real estate prices have finally brought a vacation home within reach? Could be.
It's the ideal architects strive for when building a house: to create a distinctive home that's neither in style nor out of style, one that will never look dated but will have a timeless appeal.
Dan Aykroyd and his wife, actress Donna Dixon, have placed their 5,000-sq.-ft., Cape Cod-style home of 25 years in the Hollywood Hills on the market for $4.2 million.
Last year was a safer one for workers in the United States; 5,703 died on the job, down slightly from the 5,734 fatalities in 2005. The rate was 3.9 per 100,000 workers, slightly lower than the 4.0 per 100,000 in 2005.
I've been on my share of vacations with friends and extended family and survived the most common pitfalls - like people running up the group tab at dinner with expensive wines, planned activities that I wanted no part of and living arrangements that afforded too little privacy.
I've been on my share of vacations with friends and extended family and survived the most common pitfalls—like people running up the group tab at dinner with expensive wines, planned activities that I wanted no part of and living arrangements that afforded too little privacy. The topper for me was the time a vacation mate I didn't know well but had invited as part of a large group got nailed cheating in a card game with my better friends. I was stuck between their cold shoulders and my misbegotten guest for the rest of week.
It took me a while, but I finally got around to seeing Al Gore's global warming movie, "An Inconvenient Truth". (Clearly I don't get out enough. The last first-run movie I saw was "Happy Feet" with my kids.)
Unless you're looking to buy a new home right now, you may be having a hard time imagining the upside to the bursting of the real estate bubble. Well, here's one: There are a lot more places to rent at the beach.
French Polynesia remains the undisputed capital of overwater escapes, where $700 is the typical starting price for a hut poised on stilts in a tranquil, aquamarine lagoon. But resorts exist that are both far more affordable than Bora Bora and still within belly-flopping distance of the water.
Browsing through the real estate listings in Youngstown, Ohio, is a bit like taking a trip back through time.
AN OUTDATED, DILAPIDATED 1941 CAPE COD wasn't exactly the home that Erika and Greg Tansey dreamed of when they moved to the well-to-do Portland, Ore. suburb of Lake Oswego last year. But they were ...
A day after a jury announced it was deadlocked in the case of murdered fashion writer Christa Worthington, the judge kicked a juror off the panel for discussing the deliberations with her jailed boyfriend.
Jurors are split over the guilt or innocence of Christopher McCowen, the garbage collector accused of raping and murdering fashion writer Christa Worthington in her Cape Cod home in 2002.
Okay, this is getting a little ridiculous, right? Gettin' a little giddy. Ten new highs on the Dow in the last 15 sessions? And now I see some forecasters saying: "Oh, the market's not too high, it's going up more." That to me says TOP!
It's earnings season in earnest. Some will be up (IBM), some will be okay (Intel), and some will be soft (Yahoo). Overall the picture is perfectly fine, ya dig? See below...
When Christa Worthington, a fashion writer from a wealthy Cape Cod family, was murdered in her seaside cottage four years ago, there was no shortage of suspects.
Summmer's winding down, and you've still got vacation on the brain: the quiet of the country, the crisp mountain air, the lull of the ocean.
Spanish revival design uses techniques, details and traditions that evolved over centuries of home building on the Iberian Peninsula, yet it's so modern, functional and attractive that it has become one of the designs of choice in much of the United States today.
There's a short-term and a long-term question to ask before renovating your home.
All right-thinking people agree that reducing dependence on fossil fuels is a Good Thing. Shifting energy consumption toward renewables such as biomass, wind and solar helps make the world cleaner; and it would be awfully nice not to have to rely quite so much on a certain rather volatile region of the world.
We may still be bundled under our winter coats in some parts of the country, but now is the time to start locking in your summer vacation rental. Early birds have already started to book the hottest summer rentals across the country.
Galling as junk fees and inflated title costs may be, they are small potatoes compared with the big money commanded by real estate brokers in the form of sales commissions -- $65 billion last year. And it's over the size of sales commissions that the struggle to unleash competitive forces in the real estate business has been most fiercely waged
For more than 20 years Bill Rypka's career plans have been up in the air, and there are plenty of people alive today who can thank him and his colleagues for it.
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Walk the Line," the Johnny Cash biopic, will be shown at Folsom State Prison next month, nearly four decades after the Man in Black famously performed there.
Tired of low ceilings in their upstairs bedroom, no shower in the nearby half bath and a flight of stairs separating them from their young son at night, John and Susan Herbert decided to raise the ...
Americans taking to the roads during the July 4 holiday weekend are almost certain to encounter a traffic bottleneck somewhere, but the biggest is likely to be west of Portland, Oregon, the American Highway Users Alliance said Thursday.
Making fast friends over sand castles...lying in the surf as the waves wash over you...trying to keep up with Mom or Dad as you comb the shoreline for shells. There's something about the beach that...
There's no better time to be a sports enthusiast in Boston than right now.
Find Canada's Prince Edward Island on a map -- in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 180 miles northeast of Maine -- and "beach vacation" won't be the first thing that comes to mind.
Making fast friends over sand castles...Lying in the surf as the waves wash over you...trying to keep up with Mom or Dad as you comb the shoreline for shells. There's something about the beach that makes childhood memories fonder.
Investigators do not believe 46-year-old Christa Worthington, a former fashion writer, and her killer had a personal relationship, the Cape and Islands district attorney said Friday.
The kids want a dog but you are afraid the family can't handle the responsibility. You've got a black-tie affair to attend, but no bling to match your dress. You're looking to buy a new pair of skis before your ski weekend getaway.
Boston's Logan International Airport reopened for flights Monday morning after closing for more than 24-hours due to the weekend blizzard that dumped more than two feet of snow across parts of southern New England.
Howling winds and blinding snow blasted the Northeast on Sunday, closing Boston's airport and forcing airlines to evaluate whether to cancel flights in other cities slammed for a second day by blizzard conditions.
Like most people, all I've seen of "I, Robot" is the trailer and some commercials.
At age 99, Sophie Blake is fiercely protective of two things: her recipe for boilo--a Lithuanian firewater made of whiskey, honey, oranges, lemons, cinnamon and cloves--and her independence. Fiftee...
When I first rolled into Milwaukee on a winter evening, I had nothing to fuel my wandering but the Laverne & Shirley theme song. Hardly romantic. Yet, in the wanderer's ultimate payoff, I fell in love. Unexpectedly. With Milwaukee.
It may define the American dream, but buying a home remains one of life's biggest sources of stress. From choosing a loan to paying for closing costs, it's enough to put even the most mild-mannered among us on edge.
Most of the recent changes in the way Americans travel fall into the category of necessary inconveniences: heightened security measures, long airport waits, that sort of thing. But there is one cha...
Who hasn't heard their elders wax nostalgic for the unspoiled vacation spots of yesteryear? Few places are as often the subject of such memories as Cape Cod, which, though still a delightful retreat in many respects, strikes many of today's summer visitors as crowded, expensive and overdeveloped.
Paul Schneider's The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket (Henry Holt) describes a place that bears almost no resemblance to the one where I've spent summers for d...
Apparently, the art of forecasting insurance rates is as imprecise as any other market call. Term life insurance premiums have been dropping for roughly a decade, and even though many insurance exp...
So you're feeling pretty good about your portfolio these days, and you're juiced about the future. You're even thinking of cashing in a few winners and investing in a second home--maybe a quiet wee...
Never underestimate the power of entrepreneurial energy. Back in 1980, Massachusetts native Stephen Bernard made good on his dream to start up a company selling premium potato chips. He thought his...
No one seems to remember just who, in the mid-1970s, first had the idea to ship a giant bluefin tuna from New England to Japan by airfreight, but in that moment was born a trade to gladden the flin...
If you're booking a vacation with your kid, get out your calculator. Total costs vary by as much as 238% among five hot sun spots. It'll run you 400% more to keep your camper happy at the YMCA day ...
For hot housing markets of the future, look to retirees and vacationers. "Within a decade the first edge of the baby-boomers will be looking at retirement, at age 55, not 65, and they are likely to...
RAY DETTLOFF wakes up several hours before dawn in his three-bedroom home in fashionable Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He is at work by 5 A.M., programming and operating a computerized lathe, a job that...
DEATH AND TAXES are tough enough to stomach on their own. Unfortunately, at the end, they arrive together. With a little advance planning, however, you can mitigate at least one of these two certai...
There's nothing like a chastening experience with one of Wall Street's minions to underline some enduring truths. The broker had strongly recommended holding the stock of a takeover candidate at $9...
When Barry Silver and his fiancee Mary Krupinsky began shopping for a beach house a year ago, they ignored Martha's Vineyard, the island off Cape Cod that is favored by such well-heeled vacationers...
-- More shareholders will get early stocking stuffers this year -- special dividends, such as the $4 a share paid in July by Texaco. Reason: record profit growth. In the first half of 1989, 219 spe...
Time sharing -- buying an annual week or two at a resort -- has lost its luster in recent years because of high-pressure sales tactics, poorly managed properties and a lousy secondary market. Now d...
It figures that Harry Levine of Hingham, Mass. would do his own taxes, since he does everything else. Assistant principal of Avon (Mass.) High School, Levine moonlights as a consultant for two neig...
Tom and Mary Stott are getting ready to sell their 10-room Cape Cod-style home of 10 years and move into a six-room condominium. Their trade-down is not a reluctant retreat but part of a well-thoug...
Tom and Mary Stott are getting ready to sell their 10-room Cape Cod-style home of 10 years and move into a six-room condominium. Their trade-down is not a reluctant retreat but part of a well-thoug...
Ordering videos by mail is not the only alternative to Rambo-worn viewers (''Relief from Rambo,'' February). Here on Cape Cod, 22 public libraries cooperate to allow viewers to check out tapes from...
Wherever you are flying this summer, whether down to Rio or up to old Cape Cod, you had better be prepared. It's a jungle out there. To book a flight intelligently, you have to hack through an unde...
Stroll through charming Cape Cod villages. Picnic on St. Croix. Or discover the mysteries of Hong Kong. Sound enticing? You bet it does -- especially to the financial planner or broker who sells yo...
Last April, George Littrell got a $30,000 check he didn't want. The money represented the returned principal from a 16% second mortgage he held from the 1982 sale, for $155,000, of his former busin...
Dexter D. Coffin III, 37, grew up with servants, yachts, private boarding schools, and a U.S. family tree that dates to the mid-1600s. That's when his Dexter and Coffin forebears settled Cape Cod a...
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