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Pelley this is our western edition. Today, in one of the most momentous civil rights decisions in its history, the Supreme Court of the United States found that gay and lesbian americans have a constitutional right to marry. Cheers shook the courthouse steps. Licenses were issued and weddings performed in states where such marriages were outlawed. The vote in obergefell v. Hodges was 54. The dissents were vehement, led by chief Justice John Roberts. But the majority, led by Justice Anthony kennedy, found its justification in the 14th amendment, written after the civil war to extend equal prote...

My wife’s family is scattered across New England, from Wrentham, south of Boston, to Norway in Maine (just a few miles north of Poland Springs, for you mineral water fans). Every couple years, I get to visit for a week around Thanksgiving, and it has allowed me to keep my finger on the pulse of

The holiday weekend in Lawrence will feature art, live music, dance and, of course, fireworks. Many local businesses and services will be closed or rescheduling

There are many different kinds of homebrewers. Some barely do more than dissolve extract syrup in water and pitch yeast, while others have miniature-scale professional breweries. Some homebrewers make hundreds of gallons of beer a year and enter competitions; others

On Monday, Constellation Brands announced it was acquiring San Diego’s Ballast Point Brewing Co. Big whoop, right? It seems like one of the big beer companies buys a craft brewery about every other week. But here’s the actual news within the story: Constellation—which owns the U.S. rights to Corona and Modelo and is the country’s