In case you missed it, reporter Susan Cover had a really unusual story in today's newspapers (A1 of Kennebec Journal; B1 of Morning Sentinel).

In her piece, Susan describes how local fisherman Bob Greene was on the Kennebec River when he saw what he first thought was a log, then thought was a body, floating downriver.

Greene called police on his cell phone and a dispatcher told him not to jump in after the person, but rather to try to keep the person from going downstream even more, from Greene's perch on the river's dock.

Greene cast his 25-pound test line and his lure took hold enough that he caught the man and guided him closer to shore. Then police arrived and they helped pull the man out of the water.

Police say the man had jumped from the Cushnoc Crossing bridge in Augusta about a mile upriver from where Greene was. That bridge is 114 feet above the river.

And he's alive, in critical condition at a Portland hospital.

Wow.