Odds & Ends: July 21, 2017
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A New Hampshire lobsterman has joined an elite club after catching a rare blue lobster.
The Portsmouth Herald Greg Ward initially thought he had snagged an albino lobster when he...
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