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It all started when Howard Deering Johnson, who grew up in the town of Quincy, Mass., purchased a drugstore and began peddling homemade ice cream. His dessert became so popular, he then opened an ice cream stand on Wollaston Beach, where, legend has it, he sold as many as 14,000 cones in a single day. In 1929, the first Howard Johnson's restaurant opened in Quincy Square. Fast forward to 2022, and what was the largest restaurant chain in the United States throughout the 1960s and 1970s—with more than 1,000 locations—is now closing the doors to its last remaining location. According...

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) - Investigators were focusing on excess weight as a possible cause of the boat accident that killed 20 elderly people on a calm, clear day during a sightseeing tour on an Adirondack lake.

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) -- The owner of the boat that capsized on Lake George, killing 20 elderly tourists, could face a fine as low as $25 for failing to have enough crew members on board, police said Tuesday. As divers searched for evidence and the victims' belongings, State Police Maj. Gerald Meyer told reporters that a state inspector determined in May the 38-foot Ethan Allen needed one crew member besides the captain because it carried up to 48 passengers. The captain, 74-year-old Richard Paris, was the only crew member aboard when the boat, with 47 passengers, overturned Sunday afternoon...

A boat filled with elderly tourists taking a pleasure cruise on Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York capsized suddenly and sank yesterday afternoon under a clear sky, killing 21 passengers and injuring several more, the authorities said. The Ethan Allen, a 40-foot, glass-enclosed tour boat, went down with 49 people aboard, only a few hundred feet from the lake's western shore, about two miles north of the village of Lake George. Witnesses and officials said the boat had flipped over with startling speed, and might have been swamped by the wake of a bigger boat.Brian Heart,...

This afternoon, in Lake George, NY, 21 senior citizens drowned while on a short, probably just a couple of hours, cruise. There were arouund 49 passengers on the boat. They were not wearing life jackets.

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. -- Nineteen people were killed when a small tour boat carrying 47 people flipped over Sunday on a lake in upstate New York, the county sheriff told the Glens Falls Post-Star. Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland told the paper the Ethan Allen capsized when another tour boat passed near it and swamped it. The Ethan Allen sank, he said. The 40-foot, glass-enclosed tour boat flipped around 4 p.m. on Lake George about 50 miles north of Albany in the Adirondack Mountains.

Fox News reporting a tour boat named the "Ethan Allen" has overturned in a lake in northern New York state. 46-50 persons were on board and rescues are on going. Searching for an AP link...