Chris Brown was off Block Island fishing for scup, a small fish that weighs about a pound, when something much bigger landed on his deck: a 500-pound, 16-foot-long common thresher shark.

In their first meet of 2025, the Destin High Sharks locked up a win in the weight room on Jan. 6 over Walton High of DeFuniak Springs and Seacoast Collegiate High of Santa Rosa Beach. The girls ...