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GOSHEN — Agriculture is alive and well in town, as proven by the success of the eight farms and two vineyards that are part of the fifth annual Goshen Open Farm Tour this weekend.

NEW HARTFORD — No orange — not in awnings, not in umbrellas, not on a tower and certainly not on a menu sign.

WATERBURY — The estate of a woman who was killed after the car she was riding in crashed into a utility pole last year, is suing the driver of the car, the city and police officers who they claim were pursuing the car.

LOS ANGELES — The creators of "Pokemon Go" say they're working to remove real-world locations that don't wish to be included in the mobile gaming sensation.

BEIRUT — Dozens of families and some opposition fighters started leaving besieged rebel-held neighborhoods in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday after the government opened safe corridors for civilians and fighters who want to leave, state media reported.

PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump's flurry of offhand remarks and abrupt zingers on Russia — praising Vladimir Putin, dismissing NATO — have jolted the world, not to mention the U.S. presidential campaign.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A woman who was recently released from prison in Oregon robbed a bank in Wyoming only to throw the cash up in the air outside the building and sit down to wait for police, authorities said Friday.

KRAKOW, Poland — Pope Francis encouraged Catholic priests and nuns to leave their comfort zones and tend to the needy as he celebrated a Mass on Saturday in a Polish church dedicated to St. John Paul II, the Polish pontiff whose staunch defense of workers' rights in the 1970s and '80s challenged his nation's then-Communist rulers.

NEW YORK — A bride-to-be says New York City police officers staged a phony traffic stop for her fiance, who wanted an unusual setting for his proposal.

PLYMOUTH — A fire damaged Riverside Baptist Church on Saturday, but the spirit of the parishioners remains unfazed.