Mark LaFlamme: On UFOs, wilted roses and subterranean cannibal spiders

Mark LaFlamme: Abused feline has found a home, wanted in another

Street Talk: For the cat named Harlow, the long road to recovery was just beginning. But for the young woman who rescued the animal, all that awaited was frustration.

Mark LaFlamme: T-Rex vs. spy balloon vs. Walmart pole vs. Omar from ‘The Wire’

It's like a B-movie marathon all up in here as Talk of the Town prepares for battle.

Mark LaFlamme: Victims are awaiting justice and finding it lacking

Mark LaFlamme: Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus and all that noise

Talk of the Town: Columnist has discovered the floor-washing robot at the Oxford Walmart, and its life may never be the same.

Mark LaFlamme: Alcohol: The forgotten drug epidemic

Street Talk: Where a substance like fentanyl is apt to drop a man where he stands in his dreamy nod, liquor takes its time; a cat toying with a field mouse before delivering the fatal blow.

Mark LaFlamme: Boy, that snowman looks mad

Talk of the Town: Are you like me? Do you like to go out to shovel the yard at 3 a.m. and pull one over on Ma Nature and her cohorts?

Mark LaFlamme: A beloved fire investigator is leaving, and reporting will never be the same

Street Talk: At every fire scene I went to in Lewiston over the years, the first guy I looked for was Paul Ouellette.

‘A passion for pets’: With animals needing good homes, there’s no dogging it at the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society

'It's such a teamwork environment that it's more like a family around here, and I feel like we make a huge impact on not only our team's lives, but the animals' lives.'

‘It’s me or the dog’: Sandy Graul adopts a(nother) pet

Nina the pit bull 'put on the dog' day after day without success. Finally, Sandy Graul had enough.