Cop Enjoys Lobster
Madison Wisconsin-Veteran police Officer Joseph Gambardella was charged Wednesday with burglary and larceny after being caught on videotape stealing several hundred dollars’ worth of lobster and shrimp from a popular seafood restaurant in the dead of night last October, police said. Gambardella, 48, is a 15-year veteran of the Madison department […]

Federal agents seized 20,000 pounds of scallops overnight from a boat two miles east of Martha’s Vineyard and charged the crew with using illegal dredges, according to a statement issued today by the US Coast Guard. Investigators boarded the 93-foot Villa Do Corva II at about 9 p.m. Wednesday as the boat was on […]

Surgical stitches could soon become a relic of medical history, for scientists have developed a thin polymer bio-film that seals surgical wounds. Scientists at the University of New South Wales in Australia say that surgical sutures date back some 4,000 years, so a new approach has been long overdue. The bio-film, measuring 50 microns thick, […]

A 31-year-old man remains in jail today after police said he attempted to steal nearly $150 in steaks from a grocery store on Christmas Day. Ronald Clark, no address listed, was captured by police after he was spotted running with steaks taken from a nearby Winn-Dixie grocery store, police reports show. The man was charged […]

Red Mysid
In Lake Michigan, a newly discovered, invasive species of shrimp could compete with fish for zooplankton as a source of food. Scientists last month found thousands of red mysid, with the scientific name Hemimysis anomala, in the channel of Muskegon Lake, which empties into Lake Michigan Researchers at the National Oceanic and […]