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A local seafood processing plant and a staffing firm have been named as top offenders in a national list highlighting companies that endanger their employees through unsafe practices.

A Cape Cod community is partnering with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy to educate the public on how to treat shark attack wounds.

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — Police have executed a search warrant at the home of a Connecticut woman who went missing at sea while on a fishing trip with her son. Officers from South Kingstown, Rhode Island, accompanied by local police were seen Thursday night removing bags, envelopes and boxes from 54-year-old Linda Carman's Middletown home...

OK, so who is into this cruising stuff?  Until now all of my vacationing has been done on dry land but I think my luck has begun to run out.  It appears our next trip will take me offshore to the land of umbrella drinks, steel drums and bikinis. ...

North Atlantic gray seals can often be seen on Massachusetts shorelines, but will likely be spotted more frequently over the next few months. NOAA says it's gray seal pupping season, and mother seals and their pups will be spotted on beaches, sometimes for days at a time...

A couple of animals at the Buttonwood Park Zoo have undergone surgery. The Zoo's two harbor seals, Yellow and Blue, underwent surgery last week to improve their vision and overall eye health. The surgeries involved removing vision impairing cataracts from the eyes of both seals and the repair of a fallen lens in one of Blue's eyes...

The rays and sharks are on the road, but it's not a ball game. The New Bedford Ocean Explorium packed up cow-nose rays, Atlantic stingrays, and white spotted bamboo sharks to be transported to Mysitc Aquarium in Connecticut. The sea creatures will be incorporated into already existing exhibits at Mystic...

The man who invented the pop-up ad, has seen the error of his ways, and apologized in an essay for the Atlantic.

Tropical Storm Erin has formed in the eastern Atlantic, southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.