With the nation's economy slowing this summer due to rising energy prices and the housing slump, Nantucket seems to have faired better with an early influx of foreign tourists bringing their higher valued euros with them, according to an informal survey of island businesses. More...

When Rev. Nancy Nelson learned that one of her parishioners, a Salvadorian immigrant, was willing to advance the money to ship Wilber Pena's body back to his home country of El Salvador, Nelson, pastor of the Methodist Church, offered that the church would advance the money. More...