The bayfront workshop redefines unassuming. Concrete floors, exposed ducting. Four hushed workers and a snoozing golden retriever. Then again, maybe the Wright brothers worked like this. "It's not much, but we like it here," says Graham Hawkes, the modern-day visionary behind Hawkes Ocean Technologies. The 60-year-old British-born engineer has spent the past four decades tinkering with ...

Nellie, a 6-year-old golden retriever mix, is available for adoption... (The Wichita Eagle)

Nellie , a 6-year-old golden retriever mix, is available for adoption from the Kansas Humane Society . She is a little shy at first but is coming out of her shell. This gorgeous lady is looking for a good home with patient owners. Nellie is currently in foster care but would love to meet with a potential new family. Also available: •  Lasagna, a 2-year-old domestic shorthair cat, is a ...

Love in a cold climate (The New Zealand Herald)

It's an intriguing image. In silvery monochrome which blurs slightly towards its edges, the two men sit side by side on chairs turned back-to-front, with their golden retriever seated between them.

Smith: Black lab has quite an air about him (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Roscoe coiled his haunches, wiggled like a rocket before liftoff and fixed his stare on Brian Lilly, his owner standing 40 feet away. The 3-year-old Labrador retriever had the intense, determined look of a dog about to flush a pheasa...

A party to make the Fathers proud (Lincoln Journal Star)

If the Founding Fathers were 9-year-olds again and rode their bikes to Cripple Creek Park Friday morning, they could have had a lot of old-fashioned fun.