A blind swimmer has lapped Mackinac Island, taking more than nine hours to cover the 8.2-mile perimeter tethered to a guide swimmer.

A researcher has found a 1,700-year-old scrap of Homer’s Odyssey in a Dutch library, once part of a pocket-sized copy owned by someone in Egypt.

A doggy daycare hosts an annual halloween costume contest for dogs arriving by school bus and the results are adorably chaotic.