FISHERMAN

Nick McGlashan, who appeared on 78 episodes of Discovery’s “Deadliest Catch,” has died at the age of 33, E! News can confirm.

A rare, two-toned lobster has been saved from the boiling pot and is now on display at a marine education center in Stonington, Maine. Stonington fisherman Capt. Daryl Dunham caught the red and black crustacean last week and brought it to the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries’ Discovery Wharf.

Phil Freelon, the architect behind the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, died in Durham, North Carolina, on Tuesday at age 66.

In a dimly lit basement room on Fisherman’s Wharf, well-fed rats are scurrying around, their hairless tails trailing behind them as they pick up and eat individual pieces of breakfast cereal and glance around with their beady eyes. In almost all cases, this would be cause for a San Francisco business to get an untimely visit from the city’s health...

Apple CEO Tim Cook challenged Gen Z to clean up the messes Baby Boomers have left behind. “In some important ways, my generation has failed you,” Cook said Saturday in his commencement speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, La., at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. “We have spent too much time debating, we have been too focused on the fight, and...

News4’s Mark Segraves reports D.C. police discovered new evidence as they investigate a body found in the woods near Chain Bridge. The evidence could point to gang activity.

A beluga whale found in Arctic Norway wearing a harness that suggests links to a military facility in Russia is so tame that residents can pet the mammal on its nose. The white whale found frolicking in the frigid harbor of Tufjord, a hamlet near Norway’s northernmost point, has become “a huge attraction” for locals, one resident said Tuesday. The...

A man’s body was found in Northwest D.C. over the weekend a half mile down river from the Chain Bridge. The body was sliced up and one hand was missing. News 4’s Mark Segraves reports D.C. police are asking for help in the investigation.

A beluga whale found with a tight harness that appeared to be Russian made has raised the alarm of Norwegian officials and prompted speculation that the animal may have escaped from a Russian military facility. Joergen Ree Wiig of the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries says “Equipment St. Petersburg” is written on the harness strap, which features a mount for an...

As a small boat packed with Venezuelans capsized in Caribbean coastal waters this week, Yubreilys Merchán found herself with seconds to react. In a desperate bid to survive, the 23-year-old hairdresser stripped off her clothes to lighten her weight before plunging into the water amid cries of panic. Then, she began swimming toward a nearby island, a skill she learned...

A Maryland man wanted in Florida for an apparent attack on a pelican was arrested in Ocean City Friday morning.

Employees at a family-owned business in Gaithersburg, Maryland, say unwarranted negative reviews flooded its Facebook page after a video went viral of an ex-employee jumping off a dock in Florida and landing on a pelican.

A business in Gaithersburg, Maryland, has received a slew of unwarranted negative reviews and angry messages after a former employee posted a video of him attacking a pelican. News4’s Chris Gordon reports.

The Coast Guard and other agencies on Saturday rescued 46 ice fishermen who were on an ice floe that broke off on the Ohio shore of Lake Erie, the Coast Guard said....
There were more people on the ice floe, but around 100 were able to swim or walk across ice bridges that had been connected to the floe, according to...

Elian González Brotóns, the man who was once at the center of a major custody battle which involved the U.S. and Cuban governments, has joined Twitter.

Decades ago, News4’s own Jim Vance got the chance to spend six hours fishing with then-President George H.W. Bush. “President Bush is one heck of a fisherman,” Vance said. “I will never forget that day.”

Canadians are known as friendly folks, but these crabby brutes migrating from Canadian waters are better suited for the hockey rink. Green crabs from Nova Scotia are the same species as their cousins that already inhabit Maine waters, but are ornerier and angrier, threatening to accelerate harm to the coastal ecosystem by gobbling up soft-shell clams and destroying native eel...

Environmentalists scored a major victory in Sacramento Thursday after California lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to phase out the use of a controversial type of fishing gear, known as drift gillnets: mile-long nets blamed for unintentionally killing thousands of sea creatures, including endangered animals.

PETA is trying to get Marylanders to give up a beloved pastime and go vegan.

A search is under way near Gravelly Point for a missing boater. Pat Collins reports.