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We bring you some of our favorite stories of triumph over adversity, from a man who stayed up late nights in prison so he could get a college degree, to a gay Muslim boy in South Yorkshire, England who grew up to be a global fashion icon.

Surveys show people of color are the most hesitant to take a vaccine against the coronavirus. Plus, Amy Traverso is an unabashed apple fan, and the author of a newly revised and updated "The Apple Lover's Cookbook."

The Maine-based groundfishing vessel went missing off the coast of Provincetown early Monday morning.

Host Tiziana Dearing reflect on a Thanksgiving unlike any other -- which comes in the middle of a pandemic and a reckoning about who we are as a people, and what we stand for.

These days, testing is easier said than done, with long lines stretching out at testing sites all over the state.

Amy Traverso is the senior food editor at Yankee magazine. She's also an unabashed apple fan, and the author of a newly revised and updated "The Apple Lover's Cookbook." She takes listener calls on how to identify apples, buy them and how to eat and cook with them.