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Jeff and Maureen Seaberg of Pembroke and their four children are happily living an unconventional life. The Seabergs have turned their home into an alpaca farm and retreat, and they sell clothing made from alpaca wool. They’re accomplished beekeepers, too.

Supreme Pizza owner Nick Vasvatekis of Bridgewater purchased the building next to his Whitman restaurant last year and plans to move the business there in the spring of 2014. “It is exciting to start from scratch again,” Vasvatekis said. “We rented for 23 years and I think we are due.”

Cold weather didn’t keep hundreds of Quincy residents from attending the city’s annual tree lighting in Quincy Center Friday evening.

On the South Shore and across the nation, parking lots and store aisles swelled with people on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year. Millions of Americans woke up before dawn – or didn’t sleep at all – to stake out sales.

A comet that gained an earthly following because of its bright tail visible from space was initially declared dead after grazing the sun. Now, there is a sliver of hope that Comet ISON may have survived.

News on Black Friday shopping, Chris Christie and a lying waitress.

Police said  speed was a factor in a car crash  that left five teenagers injured  on Thursday night.

Seventeen registers were set up and ready to go when Target at South Shore Plaza opened at 1 a.m. on Friday.

Better than Philadelphia, better than St. Louis, and way better than Macy's parade in New York. That's what AOL says about Plymouth's Thanksgiving Day parade.

Five teens were injured in a Thanksgiving night crash in Carver, police said.