Shannon Larson

Brown and his wife purchased the nearly 8-acre property in Vineyard Haven in 1988, property records say.

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Two brothers were night fishing on a beach in Falmouth last month when one got a bite. What had been a quiet few hours turned wild when they reeled in a small tiger shark, its vertical stripes vibrant on its blue-gray body.

A man in his 60s is the second person to test positive for West Nile virus in Massachusetts this year after he was exposed in Middlesex County, public health officials said Monday.

Parton, who died Tuesday, was known for her philanthropic endeavors, including a donation that helped fund early research into the vaccine.

Dan Shuman, who owns Marblehead Cycle, made his stance public this week on social media.

A woman may have been bitten by a shark while swimming at South Beach on Martha's Vineyard Monday afternoon, an Edgartown official said.

A man was killed and a woman injured in an early morning shooting outside a bar in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday, police said.

Fourteen-year-old Stone Fornes has reeled in all kinds of fish off Nantucket, from mako and sandbar sharks to a white marlin so massive that he shattered the junior world record two summers ago.

Twenty years after a Hyde Park man went missing in Portland, Maine, investigators believe they are “getting closer and closer” to finding out what happened that night, said Portland Police Lieutenant Nicholas Goodman.