Cape Cod is seeing a lot more of some big-fish tourists - endangered right whales enticed by the fine dining possibilities of its plankton-rich bay.

Stanley Kunitz, a former US poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner whose expressive verse, social commitment and generosity to young writers spanned three-quarters of a century, has died. He was 100.

Dozens of gay couples rushed to tie the knot at chapels, parks and beaches across Massachusetts.