SEALs swim Sebago Lake for Camp Sunshine: Photos

The 13-mile endurance swim was part of an effort to raise about $100,000.

Shark Week video: Great white gets a fin cam

These shark hunters hope their camera-equipped shark will lead them to a lair of mega sharks.

China announces birth of rare panda triplets

Born pink and mostly hairless two weeks ago, the cubs now weigh between 8 and 12 ounces. Watch video.

Fresh approach for Deering High: Photo

Today’s Alive@5 concert moved to Port City Music Hall

Weather concerns prompt the move indoors. The free concert with Spirit Family Reunion and Ghost of Paul Revere is still scheduled to start at 5 p.m.

Farmer plays trombone until the cows come home: Video

Derek Klingenberg, 35, from Peabody, Kansas, blasts out an upbeat tune – ‘Royals’ by Lorde – and the cows come running on cue.

Unsettled: Triumph and Tragedy in Maine’s Indian Country

The full saga of the Passamaquoddy tribe from Press Herald writer Colin Woodard.

Prize-winning goat disappears from Colorado fair

GREELEY, Colo. — Police in Greeley, Colorado, are investigating who’s got the goat — a grand champion animal that vanished this week from a county fair. The Greeley Tribune reports the red-colored Boer (pronounced BOHR) goat was reported missing Monday, hours before it was scheduled to appear at the Weld County fair’s junior livestock auction. […]

Island near Buffalo overrun by hundreds of cats

NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y.  — A small island near Buffalo has a big cat problem thanks to people who have abandoned felines there over the years. WIVB-TV reports that hundreds of feral and abandoned cats are believed to be on the Niagara River’s Tonawanda Island. Mike Charnock owns a marina and restaurant on the 85-acre island […]

Man finds calico lobster, gives it to N.H. aquarium

Calico lobsters are the second rarest in the world, after albino lobsters, according to a spokeswoman for Explore the Ocean World Oceanarium.