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Four centuries and one year after the Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England, on a historic sea journey to America, another trailblazing vessel with the same name has set off to retrace the voyage. This Mayflower, though, is a sleek, modern robotic ship that is carrying no human crew or passengers. It’s being piloted by sophisticated artificial intelligence technology for...

A Massachusetts woman is not only mourning the loss of her 84-year-old grandmother but is also searching exhaustively for her nana’s missing wedding ring, which she says was stolen.

The replica of the original Mayflower ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 returned to the coastal town after undergoing a multimillion-dollar renovation in Connecticut over the last three years.

President Donald Trump gets some of his worst marks from the American people when it comes to his handling of climate change, and majorities believe the planet is warming and support government actions that he has sometimes scoffed at. While the administration has rolled back regulations to cut emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from power and industrial plants and pushed...

A Ferrari F40, one of the most celebrated supercars ever built, is one of the high-end cars seized in a federal fraud investigation that was up for bids at a US Marshal’s auction. The menacing black 1991 Ferrari, a few 1960s Corvettes, vintage Chevys, and a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner coupe are some of the items that were forfeited as part...

Rescuers who respond to distressed whales and other marine animals say the federal government shutdown is making it more difficult to do their work.

The 61-year-old SUNY professor bitten by a shark while standing in the water just 30 yards off a Cape Cod beach earlier this month has been released from the hospital, a spokesman said Monday, days after a great white shark washed up on the beach near where he had been swimming when he was attacked.

A man suffered “deep puncture wounds” when he was bitten by a shark while standing in the water just 30 yards off shore of a Cape Cod beach on Wednesday afternoon.

A woman who suffered a black eye after she was struck in the face by a flying hot dog during Monday’s Phillies game is speaking out.

The greatest military museum you’ve never heard of might be just a short drive away from San Diego.

So you think you’re descended from a Pilgrim? It’s now easier to find out.

A 24-year-old man was killed in a deputy-involved shooting in Vista.

A new book and a major motion picture are in the works about the New England Patriots’ star quarterback and the “Deflategate” suspension he overcame to earn an unprecedented fifth Super Bowl ring.

Archaeologists have pinpointed what they think is the exact spot where the Pilgrims lived in the years after landing in the New World. Every American schoolchild knows the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620, but exactly where has been elusive. Archaeologists from the University of Massachusetts Boston tell The Boston Globe they have discovered what is believed to be part...

If you happened to see a giant potato being hauled on a barge on the Hudson River Wednesday, your eyes were not deceiving you.

Olympic diver Tom Daley and “Milk” screenwriter Dustin Lance Black announced their engagement with an announcement in The Times.

The former superintendent of Hebron Public Schools has been charged with larceny after allegedly stealing more than $15,000 from the town, some of which was used to analyze Board of Education data in Plymouth, where she now works, according to state police and an audit conducted by the Hebron BOE.

A wildfire in Northern California has forced evacuations and destroyed 10 homes and several other structures near vineyards in the Sierra Nevada foothills, authorities said Saturday.