How do you celebrate a family who for 20 years has let you into their home and shared their lives with you through all its ups and downs? You give them their own series of postage stamps, of course. Last April it was announced that of the 50,000 stamp suggestions the U.S. Postal Service received from the public, the Simpsons were chosen to be the subject of a new stamp series. James L. Brooks, the cartoon’s producer said, “We are emotionally... 

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? The sea’s latest hero, that’s who! It was just after 7 p.m. Saturday when the crew aboard the Gloucester-based fishing vessel Clam Juice reported they were rapidly taking on water off Ten Pound Island. A Coast Guard rescue crew that arrived minutes later began pumping out the boat, but noticed a large crack in an exhaust pipe. After one of the rescuers said that he wished they had their...