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News Articles: Martha's Vineyard

Venezuelan migrants gather at the Vineyard Haven ferry terminal in Marthas Vineyard. The group was transported to Joint Base Cape Cod in Buzzards Bay.

A federal judge says migrants can sue the company that flew them to Martha's Vineyard

Migrants can sue an air transport company that they say misled them when it flew them from Texas to Martha's Vineyard. A judge dismissed claims against Florida officials, including Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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  • Greg Allen
The Gay Head lighthouse rises above the cliffs on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., in 2010. The body of Tafari Campbell, a personal chef to the Obamas, was recently recovered in nearby Edgartown Great Pond.

Obamas' personal chef dies while paddleboarding in Martha's Vineyard

The body of Tarfari Campbell, 45, was recovered Monday after a two-day search in Edgartown Great Pond, near a home owned by the former president and first lady.

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  • Emily Olson
Marthas Vineyard residents line up in front of St. Andrews Parish House to donate food to the recently arrived migrants. Two planes of migrants from Venezuela arrived suddenly Wednesday night on Martha's Vineyard.

Migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard are being rehoused on a base in Cape Cod

The immigrants who were sent from Texas to Martha's Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will now be housed in Joint Base Cape Cod.

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  • Jaclyn Diaz
A woman, who is part of a group of migrants that had just arrived, holds a child as they are fed outside St. Andrews Episcopal Church on Wednesday in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew two planes of migrants to Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday.

After migrants arrived in Martha's Vineyard, a community gathered to welcome them

Residents across Martha's Vineyard say they were scrambling to care for the nearly 50 immigrants, who arrived without warning at the local airport.

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  • Jonathan Franklin and
  • Eve Zuckoff
David Vanderhoop, 67, at Sassafras Earth Education, an indigenous Wampanoag nonprofit that he runs with his wife on Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

On Martha's Vineyard, tribal elders work to restore land to its pre-colonial state

On the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, members of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe are trying to restore land to the way it looked, smelled and sounded pre-colonialism.

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  • Eve Zuckoff
David Vanderhoop, 67, at Sassafras Earth Education, an indigenous Wampanoag nonprofit that he runs with his wife on Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

On Martha's Vineyard, tribal elders work to restore land to its pre-colonial state

On the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, members of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe are trying to restore land to the way it looked, smelled and sounded pre-colonialism.

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  • Eve Zuckoff
A poster advertising the anniversary collector's edition of the movie <em>Jaws</em> is posted on a lifeguard tower in 2000 on Zuma Beach in Malibu, Calif.

A 'Jaws' actor is named police chief in the town where the iconic movie was filmed

Decades ago, Jonathan Searle played one of the pranksters with a cardboard fin in Jaws.

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  • Rina Torchinsky