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Four men who were arrested while out hunting beaver in central Sweden at the weekend are being held in custody as prosecutors continue their hunting crimes investigation related to suspected illegal hunting of wolves. Police used a helicopter to track down and arrest the four men last Sunday in a wooded area on the border between Dalarna and Härjedalen counties in north central Sweden. A fifth hunter who was with the group at the time of the dramatic arrest was initially released. "We were out doing reconnaissance in beaver territory because we had two Danish hunting guests on the way,"...

The Presidential Election of 2012 is Beaverville played out in real life, on the national stage. President Barack Obama is the skinny, duplicitous “Barry” Haskell, while Gov. Mitt Romney is the wise, affectionate “Mitt” Cleaver. Here’s a little history of the two main characters in the Eddie versus Ward show that Barry and Mitt are playing out right now, on the national stage, before an American audience: To begin with “Barry” Haskell lies. His lying always follows the same pattern, whether he is (a) distancing himself from a troublesome priest; (b) supporting gay marriage (1996), which he did before opposing...

A 23-year old woman is accused of stealing a hearse containing the body of an 85-year-old woman. Police say the hearse's driver left the vehicle's door open and the engine running outside a funeral home Tuesday while he went to unlock the door to the building. After he stepped away, police say Angela Dehart jumped into the hearse and took off. Sign up for KTLA 5 Breaking News Email Alerts She reportedly told investigators she and her girlfriend were arguing in another car and she got angry and decided to leave in the hearse. Police found the hearse and the...

The Bureau of Land Management says a fossil found by employees on federal land represents the earliest record of living beavers in North America. The pair of teeth was found on BLM land in northeast Oregon. The Albany Democrat-Herald reports the teeth come from the Rattlesnake Formation and are 7 to 7.3 million years old. The BLM says the earliest beavers were found in Germany 10 to 12 million years ago and the animals spread across Asia, eventually crossing the Bering Land Bridge to North America. The previous earliest known records of living beavers in North America, from about 5...

BIG BEAVER, Pa. (AP) — Police say they're searching for the ex-boyfriend of an exotic dancer who was robbed after the man accosted her after hiding in the back of her sport-utility vehicle. Police in Big Beaver say 29-year-old Larry Shaffer Jr., of New Castle, was hiding in the rear cargo area when the victim left the Club Escape Gentleman's Club about 4:15 a.m. Saturday.

Just got some great funk music in this series of 45's that came out around 1968-1975, Florida Funk, because the guitar stuff was amazing. Turns out the rest was truly amazing too, not only was it funk, it was jazz, soul, blues, rock, and a whole lot of artist that were in the groove. Drums, the horns, keyboards, I think I even heard some funky claive(sp?). Your going to love it, and mercifully may even forget all about the budgeting woes.

NASSJO, Sweden - A Swedish homeowner called police to extract a beaver that had wandered into his garage. Jonkoping County police said the Nassjo homeowner discovered the beaver in the garage Monday morning and called police, Swedish news agency TT reported. Police said animal consultants were to "return the beaver to freedom" later in the day.

A large, agitated beaver attracted a crowd in Fort Smith, N.W.T., this week when it meandered through town and got hissy with a German shepherd. The beaver was spotted Monday evening wandering around a residential neighbourhood, along a busy street, through a graveyard and golf course, all the while escorted by an N.W.T. Environment and Natural Resources officer. Mike Keizer, a longtime resident in the town of 2,400 near the N.W.T.-Alberta border, said he hopped on his bicycle as soon as he heard there was a beaver on the loose. "It looked huge. I always thought beavers would be smaller,"...

If there is one thing Mel Gibson understands, it is damnation. The once-lauded actor was able to bring the concept to life in The Passion of the Christ, before the scandals that knocked him from his Hollywood throne and moral pulpit. In The Beaver, directed by and co-starring Jodie Foster, Gibson portrays a man crippled at first by regret and depression, then by the domination of a strange creature that was to be his salvation. Walter Black (Gibson) lies on his bed, paralyzed from what doctors diagnose as depression, although medical labels are inadequate for his existential crisis. The toy...

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men (and beavers) gang aft a-gley

The two-time Oscar winner came away pleased with her latest directorial effort, which tested her loyalty to costar and friend Mel Gibson.

Summit Entertainment has moved back the release of director Jodie Foster's The Beaver from March 23 to May 6. The dramedy will receive a limited release on that date before expanding wide on May 20. The Beaver is an emotional story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life. Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black (Mel Gibson) was once a successful toy executive and family man who now suffers from depression. No matter what he tries, Walter can't seem to get himself back on track... until a beaver hand puppet enters his life....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Body parts that were reportedly found in Bellevue have been determined to be a very large beaver, according to police.

This past Saturday, Barbara Billingsley passed away at the age of 94. For those of you scratching your heads but acquainted with 1950s television, Billingsley played the ever-gracious and loving, hearth-and-home mother June Cleaver in the classic sitcom "Leave It to Beaver." ...In fact, LITB is certainly preferable to America’s new reality, one in which, as Talbot says himself, parents raise children “in a less secure, divorce-prone, sometimes violent world.” Of course, this is an admission that there was an old reality. It was a time when the family was intact, the out-of-wedlock birthrate was low, and the biggest problems...

Plot: "Walter (Mel Gibson) is a troubled father and husband and CEO of a stalling toy company, he's clinically depressed. When he finds a Beaver glove puppet he starts to wear it without pause: he even adopts the beaver as a kind of avatar through which he carries out all of his communication." Cast: Mel Gibson as Walter Black, the CEO of a toy company Jodie Foster as Meredith Black, Walter's wife. Anton Yelchin as Porter Black, the teenage son of Walter and Meredith who lobbies his mother to get a divorce. Riley Thomas Stewart as Henry Black, the younger...

A small plane carrying four people, including three park rangers, is missing in southwest Alaska. A Coast Guard HC-130 crew is among searchers looking for the Dehavilland Beaver between Swikshak Lagoon and King Salmon, about 285 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Authorities said Russ McTindal was fishing Thursday when he saw the mammal, which he estimated to weigh 35 to 40 pounds, came at him quickly, WSB-TV, Atlanta, reported Monday. "When he got close enough, I whacked him a couple of times with a fishing rod on top of the head," McTindal said. "He even speeded up more. When he got to the bank, he come in chomping."

RED DEER, Alberta- Residents of a Canadian city have come to the defense of beavers in a downtown park that have been attacking off-leash dogs, city officials say. Officials in Red Deer, Alberta, had announced plans to trap and kill the dozen or so beavers blamed for attacks on at least six dogs swimming in a pond in the park, but wildlife groups and citizens created a storm of protest that has the city of 90,000 rethinking its plans, the National Post reported Saturday. "We have received an abnormally large number of calls and e-mails," Kevin Poth, superintendent of the...

TORONTO - A Canadian-based ecologist says he has located the world's largest beaver dam in northwestern Canada using Google satellite technology. Ecologist Jean Thie located the 2,788-foot (850-meter) dam using Google Earth and NASA technology while researching the rate of melting permafrost in the country's far north. Situated in northern Alberta's Wood Buffalo National Park, which straddles the Alberta-Northwest Territories border, the dam stretches more than eight football fields long, Thie said Friday. Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad here "I couldn't believe it when I saw it — it's a vast, vast area. There may be longer dams...

A Canadian ecologist has discovered the world's largest beaver dam in a remote area of northern Alberta, an animal-made structure so large it is visible from space. Researcher Jean Thie said Wednesday he used satellite imagery and Google Earth software to locate the dam, which is about 850 metres (2,800 feet) long on the southern edge of Wood Buffalo National Park. Average beaver dams in Canada are 10 to 100 metres long, and only rarely do they reach 500 metres. First discovered in October 2007, the gigantic dam is located in a virtually inaccessible part of the park south of...

In a remote corner of northern Alberta, Canadian beavers have built the world's largest dam, proving once and for all they are worthy of their status as a national symbol. The roughly 850-metre dam -- located at the southern edge of Wood Buffalo National Park, about 200 kilometres northeast of Fort McMurray -- is believed to be the work of several generations of beavers. The massive structure captured international attention this week, more than two years after it was first discovered by an Ottawa ecologist surveying the area through satellite imagery. The dam is so big, it can be seen...

This woodland construction is the world's biggest beaver dam, which at 2,790ft is more than twice the length of the Hoover dam and can be seen from space. The mammals use trees, mud and stone to make a type of moat where they can use their swimming skills to evade any predators. The families live in lodges on the dams and spend their days adding to and repairing the incredible structures. The dam was spotted by experts monitoring the size and spread of the beaver dams in North America. It is located on the southern edge of Wood Buffalo National...

Canada's second oldest magazine -- the venerable, Winnipeg-based history publication The Beaver -- has been forced to change its name after 90 years because the title's inadvertently sexual connotation is getting caught in spam filters and preventing the publisher from reaching a new, life-sustaining generation of readers online. The surprising rationale behind the rebranding plan wasn't revealed in a statement issued yesterday announcing that the magazine -- being relaunched under the name Canada's History -- would hit newsstands in April. But Deborah Morrison, president of Canada's National History Society and the longtime publisher of The Beaver, told Canwest News Service...

DURANT, Okla. -- The Oklahoma State Health Department is preparing to test a 60-pound beaver for rabies after it bit a small boy outside an apartment complex in southern Oklahoma. Tammy Lane said her 5-year-old son went outside to get the family cat on Saturday. But instead of finding a feline, he was attacked by a beaver after trying to pet the animal, according to KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City. "I heard screaming. I went to see what was happening. His leg was pretty bad," Lane said. She rushed her son to a local hospital and called police. "They didn't believe...

It cannot top the drunk Ewoks (nothing, I suspect, ever will), but here's a clip from an "Early Show" animal segment showing correspondent Debbye Turner Bell getting sprayed by a beaver.

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Noble Not Guilty Of Disrupting Public Gathering BEAVER (KDKA) Hours after asking a judge to send them home because they were "frazzled," a Beaver County jury found John Noble not guilty of disrupting a public gathering when he brought a gun to a campaign rally for President Barack Obama. The judge also found Noble not guilty of disorderly conduct. Noble was accused of causing a disturbance by bringing a gun to the rally in Beaver County last year. Though he had proper permits to carry the firearm, a trooper arrested him for disrupting a public gathering. During the trial, Noble...

22-year-old bank robbery suspect was tackled by a father and son not far from the bank he allegedly held up. Dale Robertson is being held in the Beaver County Jail. Police say he's a serial robber. The Huntington Bank was held up shortly after 1 p.m. Monday. A short time later, Gary, and Chris Checkan were driving their garbage truck to a landfill when they stopped for a lunch break not far from the bank. They work for Valley Waste of Zelienople. They saw Robertson running, wearing a mask and a hood. Chris got out of the truck first, and...

Wildlife officials are celebrating the sighting of a beaver in the Detroit River for the first time in decades, signaling that efforts to clean up the waterway are paying off. The Detroit Free Press reports that a beaver lodge has been discovered in an intake canal at a Detroit Edison riverfront plant. Officials believe the beaver spotted by the utility's motion-sensitive camera marks the animal's return to the river for the first time in at least 75 years. Photos and video were taken in November, but Detroit Edison didn't want to release them until they could ensure the animal's safety.

MYFOXNY.COM -- The NYPD's Harbor Unit, patrolling the East River near the United Nations as a part of security operations for the Pope's visit, rescued an apparently sick beaver from the water. The ever-vigilant harbor cops spotted the animal, which appeared to be having trouble breathing and struggled to swim, not far from the U.N., where the Pope was speaking. >>VIDEO: SCUBA COPS BRING BEAVER ASHORE >>VIDEO: OFFICER DESCRIBES BEAVER RESCUE Police Officer John Angus caught the beaver in a safety noose, pulled it aboard, and placed it in a bucket with water. Officers brought the beaver to shore for...

Oh, those crazy Australians! Only they could turn a feminine-hygiene ad into a controversy over a euphemism for the vagina. Despite a number of complaints, the Advertising Standards Bureau will not immediately bar television stations from running a tampon commercial that features a woman carrying a pet beaver everywhere she goes: Campaign spokeswoman Penny Warneford told ninemsn they had only received seven complaints from the ASB and they are a normal part of “fem care” advertising. …Ms Warneford said their research found that 94 percent of women aged 18 to 24 said they used euphemisms for the word “vagina”.“They feel...

MOON TWP. — A Moon Area High School physical education teacher and girls volleyball coach who has admitted to having sex with a 14-year-old male Moon Township freshman could face additional charges, Moon Police Chief Leo McCarthy said Monday. Beth Ann Chester, 26, of 2034 Swallow Hill Road, Scott Township, already is charged with unlawful contact with a minor, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal use of a communication facility, sexual abuse of children, corruption of minors and criminal solicitation. Charges were filed Friday, and she is being held in the Allegheny County Jail on $50,000 bond. McCarthy said...

MARTINEZ - A disoriented and possibly injured beaver was taken from Alhambra Creek to the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek this afternoon.| Marie Woods, an employee at the Contra Costa County Community Services Department, said she saw a beaver behaving strangely at about 1:25 p.m. in the area where beavers have built a dam. "The beaver was just swimming around in the water and he looked so tired or sick," Woods said, adding it bumped into the concrete walls of the creekbed. "He would topple over in the water and then swim away again." Woods said a bystander jumped...

Bakersfield plans to spare the life of a bothersome beaver blamed for gnawing down nine cottonwood trees along a popular bike path. Thursday, the California Department of Fish and Game announced it planned to exterminate the beaver, which lives near a path along the Kern River. Bakersfield Recreation and Parks Department Director Dianne Hoover says she's asking the state wildlife agency to rescind a permit to kill the beaver. Instead, the city wants to relocate the animal or find another alternative solution. An animal welfare researcher at Indiana University is also talking with local officials to try to find a...

Bringing back animals which were hunted to extinction in Britain - including the wolf, lynx, beaver and wild boar - would not be difficult, according to a new report. The animals could be brought back to live free in the wild without posing any great threat to people, crops or the environment, it is claimed. A report from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University (WCRU) said while further work needed to be done on their impact, there was no obvious reason to block their return. The animals roaming free in remote areas would enhance the natural environment and...

'Beaver’ gets all the blame British driver pins Grand Prix loss on wrong rodent Randy Boswell CanWest News Service Tuesday, June 12, 2007 Davidson blamed the wrong rodent for ruining his race when it wandered into the path of his car. It turns out a poor groundhog got in the way of the car. What, exactly, was that buck-toothed blur? The final, unfortunate act in the life of an unwitting Canadian rodent has grabbed headlines around the world after British Formula One driver Anthony Davidson blamed a "beaver" for wandering into the path of his car and ruining his race...

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, he is best known for his role as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver in the classic sitcom "Leave it to Beaver." Actor Jerry Mathers is 59...

NEW YORK - Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents have not been seen in the flesh here for as many as 200 years — until this week. Biologists videotaped a beaver swimming up the Bronx River on Wednesday. Its twig-and-mud lodge had been spotted earlier on the riverbank, but the tape confirmed the presence of the animal itself. "It had to happen because beaver populations are expanding, and their habitats are shrinking," said Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. "We're probably...

In these last days, the Bible says it will be a time of mass hybridization and the mixture and corruption of human DNA by fallen angels, also known as "Aliens." The government is and has been, conditioning the existence of aliens through Hollywood, science fiction, cartoons, and other sources. However, they are not telling you the whole truth. These Aliens are not ascended masters, or enlightened ones, or beings from galaxies millions of miles away, nor are they our forefathers or original creators. They are fallen angels who were kicked out of heaven for their rebellion against the headship...

DURHAM, N.C. — A man who pleaded guilty to lobbing a homemade bomb at his girlfriend said he was actually aiming for a beaver dam. In the end, he was the only person injured, and he now faces 10 months in prison as well. Otis Cecil Wilkins, 45, pleaded guilty Wednesday to assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 300 days in jail. He had been charged with attempted first-degree murder. According to sheriff's deputies, Wilkins had threatened the ex-girlfriend, then threw the bottle bomb at her car as she drove into her yard in Rougemont, N.C., about...

Beaver shot in downtown Larvik A man who called police to help rescue a beaver watched in horror as the animal was gunned down instead. ------------------------- Joakim Moltzau was delivering newspapers early in the morning when he found a somewhat worn out beaver wandering in downtown Larvik. After failing to lead the animal down to the local river, he called police for assistance to move the beaver to safety. Police arrived, before getting a handgun and shooting the animal three times. "Two men came out, one went over to the beaver, the other got the pistol and loaded it. They...

The William F. Clinton Foundation has posted an Internet job listing for unpaid interns. Seriously. The president that is now the butt of jokes anytime anyone claims they did not have sex with 'that woman' is brought forward apparently would again like to have a gal Friday around to help out. One item on the web site promises hands-on experience and says the interns have the responsibility of interacting directly with the staff. (Insert any joke you would like here). No - I'm not making it up. Page Six gives this account: It's been 10 years since the ex-president faced...

Beavers can introduce the parasite Giardia into the water, with diarrhea and vomiting a result, an intestinal ailment known as 'Beaver fever' (Giardiasis) in the USA. Now the City of Oslo's Department of Water and Sanitation is concerned that the revival of the beaver population in the woods around the capital can mean trouble. "We have increased the frequency of taking test samples and we are keeping an eye on where the beaver are. In North America the parasite the beaver carries makes the water undrinkable. We are not worried but are taking a safety first approach," said Terje Wold...

Hans Island, the tiny Arctic island at the centre of Canada's war of words with Denmark over its sovereignty, is so barren that even the rocks used by soldiers to erect an Inukshuk needed to be flown in by helicopter, military documents show. When a small contingent of the Canadian Forces landed on the island in July on a sovereignty patrol, they also erected a 12-foot pole topped by a metal Canadian flag that had been specially designed and built at a cost of almost $2,000. Details of the secret three-hour mission -- code-named Exercise Frozen Beaver -- are contained...

TheOneNetwork.com has posted six new clips from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Scenes include Lucy stepping through the wardrobe (little new material there), the Pevensies finding "a TALKING beaver!", Edmund with the White Witch, the beavers and the three Pevensies eluding murderous wolves, and the White Witch declaring victory (either before or after killing Aslan). I'm blown away by the performance of Tilda Swinton. Her behavior with Edmund is so motherly, so seemingly kind and sincere...entirely believable and congruent with the book.

Leave It to Beaver - Universal Announces 1st Season, Including Limited Lunchbox Package! Posted by David Lambert 8/25/2005   Last Christmas we gave our readers a present and told them that Leave It To Beaver would be out in 2005. We've been biting our tongue for a long time about the release timeframe, but now Universal has finally announced a November 22nd release date! This will be a set of 3 double-sided DVDs, with video in the original black-and-white full screen and audio in English mono, with English and Spanish subtitles. There were 39 half-hour episodes in the first...

SCHODACK -- Vince Gramuglia got what he wanted Monday, though Betty Beaver got pelted. The town Planning Board took no action to block a racy sign showing a chesty cartoon beaver that Gramuglia plans to install when he reopens the old Northeast Truck Stop. "The sign stays the way that it is," Gramuglia said. "Betty's going to hang." The truck stop impresario handed out free T-shirts showing the buxom beaver to supporters who turned out at the board meeting. The Planning Board still must decide whether the reopened truck stop will meet town noise limits and other quality-of-life concerns, but...

<p>DRAKESBAD -- An experiment at Dream Lake in Lassen Volcanic National Park may demonstrate how eager beavers really are -- and how smart.</p> <p>Park officials recently installed three flexible pipes in a spillway at the half-acre lake near Drakesbad Guest Ranch, at the park's southern entrance through Warner Valley.</p>

And the jokes just write themselves!

SHANNONDALE, W.Va. (AP) -- An 8-year-old girl had reconstructive surgery on her hand after being attacked by a rabid beaver in Jefferson County earlier this month. Robin Hays' said her daughter, Maddison, was playing along the Shenandoah River behind their Shannondale home on July 11 when the attack occurred. "We were getting ready for a pig roast, and she was down there playing,'' Hays told The Journal in Martinsburg. "Suddenly, I heard a blood-curdling scream.'' Hays saw the beaver clamped onto her daughter's hand, then shook her arm to get it free, grabbed her daughter and ran. The beaver chased...