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BEDFORD— The Bedford Hiking Club sponsors a historic walk during the Dogwood Festival in Orleans. The walk will be a Volkswalk with a 5K (3.1 miles) and 10K (6.2 miles) option. It starts at the pavilion on Congress Square, and walkers will be given a map and written directions with historical in ...

Harvard University announced Wednesday that it would be removing a book that was bound with human flesh.

Of the roughly 20 million books in Harvard University’s libraries, one has long exerted a unique dark fascination, not for its contents, but for the material it was bound in: human skin.

The book contains a handwritten note by its first owner saying, "a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering."

The book contains a handwritten note by its first owner saying, "a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering."

The Ivy League school first learned of the legitimacy of claims that the book, Destines of the Soul, was covered in actual human skin in 2014.

The original owner, who died in 1933, took the skin from a deceased female psychiatric patient at a hospital where he worked, Harvard officials said.

NEAR ELY, MINN. — Volunteers sloshed through ankle-deep lake-water, an assembly line sending large blocks of ice splashing and sliding to a pileup near the shore where they would later become the base of Will Steger's rustic refrigeration system. For decades, the explorer known for polar expeditions and climate education has kept his perishables cool the old fashioned way: tucked into a root ...

Stoners Pizza Joint has opened a location in Laurens, South Carolina, marking the brands seventh location in the state, according to a press release. "We are excited to bring an additional location to the state of South Carolina in Laurens!…