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Just before Tyler Kales was led from a Mount Vernon, Wash., courtroom to begin serving his sentence earlier this month, he apologized to the family of his victim. “All I want to say is how sorry I am,” the reed-thin 15-year-old said in a quavering voice to relatives of Pamela Almli, 54, who died instantly when Kales mistook her for a bear and shot her in the head Aug. 2, 2008, while hunting in the fog in western Washington's Skagit County. Kales, convicted by a judge of second-degree manslaughter in June, received 30 days in juvenile detention at his July...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana and Idaho are moving to host the first open gray wolf hunts in the lower 48 states after the animal's removal from the endangered list across much of the Northern Rockies.

Pirate hunting cruises along the African coast are being offered by private yachts in Russia. For £3,500 per day customers can sail along the coast of Somalia at low speed to entice a pirate into attacking.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – As U.S. troops gradually curtail combat operations in Iraq, Iraqi soldiers are taking over the task of securing the country -- and for Iraqi special forces, that means hunting down insurgents and militiamen. There are persistent doubts about Iraqi forces' readiness to take on an insurgency which, although weakened, is far from defeated and can still launch devastating attacks. "We're absolutely killing them," General Fadel Barwari, commander of the Iraqi Special Operations Force (ISOF), said with more than a hint of aggression, sitting in an office adorned with a stuffed eagle and rows of automatic weapons. "The...

Federal agents are on the hunt for a former California Water Services Company employee who quit his job a few weeks ago, broke into the firm's computers to wire $9 million into overseas bank accounts and then fled the region when confronted with criminal charges in Santa Clara County. In court documents filed today in federal court in San Jose, law enforcement officials have charged Abdirahman Ismail Abdi with unlawful flight from prosecution after he disappeared from the area earlier this month. Local prosecutors and police determined that Abdi has been trying to flee the country since at least May...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democrats on Wednesday sought to revise their $900 billion economic stimulus plan to drum up enough Republican support so they can send it to President Barack Obama next week to sign into law. The Democratic-led Senate entered a third day of debate on the package, which Obama wants on his desk by February 16, in a bid to reverse the downward spiral of the U.S. economy, which has been in recession since December 2007. Democrats need at least two Republican votes to clear possible procedural hurdles and Obama wants healthy bipartisan support for the package after...

It is a defining indicator that the embarrassing, self inflicted dumbing down of America is all but complete when people vote against their own self-interest. I'll say it: it is obvious that many Americans are not very smart. Quite dumb, actually. To listen to the Sirius radio interview with Obama voters from Harlem mindlessly cheering on Obama as the interviewer attributes McCain's policies to the Democrats is pathetic and an inescapable indicator of the blind leading the blind. Not Godbless or goddam America! God help America. Trying to explain how our economy works and why lowering taxes is always better...

UNION, Ky. -- Archaeologists have dug up and will display evidence of an American Indian bison hunt that happened hundreds of years ago in northern Kentucky. Evidence at the site shows hunters killed and butchered the animals with stone tools,leaving the bones and tools behind. The bones were discovered in Big Bone Creek several years ago but left there. Staff members from the Cincinnati Museum Center and volunteers spent a week in August digging up the artifacts. Glenn Storrs, head curator for vertebrate paleontology at the center, got permission from the state to dig while the creek's water was low.Though...

MOSUL — Third Armored Calvary Regiment Soldiers recently assisted the Iraqi Army in a joint services weapons search mission in villages west of Mosul. The Iraqi Army conducts these missions periodically to show their presence and to keep insurgents from moving into the villages. “The mission today was very productive,” said Staff Sgt. Christopher Lewis, a sergeant with Iron Hawk Troop, 3/3 ACR. “We made a presence with American and Iraqi forces working together, showing progress to the Iraqi people, how we work together.” This weapons search mission was one of the largest joint missions conducted in the Mosul area,...

McCain 2008 Announces Sportsmen For McCain Leadership Governors Pawlenty, Keating to Serve as National Co-Chairs ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign has announced the National Steering Committee of the Sportsmen for McCain coalition. These leaders in the angling, hunting and shooting communities are working across the country to emphasize John McCain's dedication to protecting Americans' right to gun ownership and his commitment to preserving and promoting our hunting, angling and shooting traditions. John McCain said, "I am proud to have the support of these national and state leaders within the sportsmen's community and know that their support...

August 3rd, 2008 by Calisuri | Source: The Hunt for Gollum | Discuss If you haven’t heard of it yet, you will want to check out the non-profit collaborative short film being produced by writer/director Chris Bouchard - The Hunt for Gollum. Like the name suggests, this short film is a prequel to The Lord Of The Rings, set in Middle Earth and depicts events leading up to the Fellowship of the Ring. The story follows the Heir of Isildur as he sets out to find the creature Gollum. Mr. Bouchard has just released the second trailer for the film...

BAGHDAD - Government troops began house-to-house searches for al-Qaida in Iraq militants in Mosul on Thursday, part of a major security operation to cleanse Iraq's third largest city from cells of the terror network. Described by the U.S. military as the last major urban base of al-Qaida in Iraq, Mosul has become the site of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's third security drive in two months as he attempts to defeat Shiite militants and Sunni extremists. Al-Maliki flew to Mosul on Wednesday to take charge of the operation by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces. On Thursday, he sought to enlist the support of...

Canada to launch first space mission to hunt asteroids 23:31 05 May 2008 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga NEOSSat is similar in design to the diminutive Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars (MOST) satellite (shown), which launched in 2003 (Illustration: University of British Columbia)Tools Canada will launch a suitcase-sized satellite in 2009 to spot potentially dangerous asteroids near Earth's orbit. It will be the first space mission devoted to hunting asteroids and may help find ones that are difficult to spot from the ground. Asteroids and comets occasionally hit Earth, with devastating consequences – a 10-kilometre-wide asteroid is thought to have...

For more than 75 years the Hunt family has meant big money in Big D, and often big news, too. Eccentric oilman H.L. Hunt built the world's largest fortune and secretly supported three families at the same time. His children built Reunion Tower and the Mansion on Turtle Creek, coined the term "Super Bowl," infamously failed to corner the silver market, and recently signed an eyebrow-raising oil deal in Iraq. But the branch of his family led by his eldest daughter, Margaret Hunt Hill, lived quietly. She flew coach, attended charity galas and became the glue that held the family...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2008 – Coalition forces killed seven terrorists and detained 27 suspects today during operations to disrupt al Qaeda networks operating in central and northern Iraq. In today’s operations: -- Coalition forces targeted suspected associates of an al Qaeda suicide-bombing network during operations southwest of Kifri. The targeted individuals are believed to be associated with terrorists killed yesterday near Khalis. As the ground force arrived in the area, the soldiers saw four enemy personnel leave the target building. Supporting aircraft engaged their position, killing the four terrorists. When the individuals inside the building did not comply with the...

We have the latest bombshell, or turd in the punch bowl, depending on your point of view: the intelligence community has destroyed tapes of our guys using “harsh” questioning techniques on terrorists. OK, now listen: CAN WE FIRST STOP TAPING our guys doing things? Do we not get that if you tape it CHANCES ARE IT WILL APPEAR ON TELEVISION AND THE INTERNET? How stupid can we be? I will answer that. VERY. However, the debate should not be about the destruction of the tapes; clearly, that is massively stupid and wrong. The debate we should be having is whether,...

LOWELL, Mass. -- A local dog owner is devastated after her dog was shot and killed. Michelle Verville was walking her dog, Smokey, in the Lowell-Dracut State Forest last week when she heard a gun shot. Smokey, a 4-year-old Labrador retriever, yelped and Verville noticed that her dog had been shot in the stomach. "I just stayed there with him and told him that it was ok, and that we loved him and that he was a good dog, and then he passed," Verville said. it is legal to hunt for deer in State parks from Nov. 26 to Dec....

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2007 – A nonprofit group is using a treasure hunt to get people interested in helping military families. “We hope treasure hunters, individuals and corporations will generously donate to the scholarship fund for the families of our brave men and women in uniform who protect our freedoms each and every day,” said Gayle Osterberg, a spokeswoman for the group, ThanksUSA. “More than 1,300 scholarships have been awarded to the kids and spouses of active-duty military personnel in all branches of the service, … including those in the Guard and reserves.” ThanksUSA is a supporter of America...

GRANDVILLE, Mich. (AP) - A state lawmaker has taken a break from the ongoing state budget talks to hunt snow sheep in Russia. Rep. David Agema stayed in session until 4 a.m. Saturday and voted three times against a proposal by Democrats to raise the state income tax before leaving on the two-week trip, said his chief of staff, Karen Spoelman. The House of Representatives worked without a resolution throughout the weekend. The Grandville Republican had planned the trip for three years, long before he was elected to his first House term last November, said Trevor Pittsley, a member of...

WASHINGTON, July 13, 2007 – Following an incident in Baghdad today where Iraqi police engaged U.S. troops in a firefight, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Marine Gen. Peter Pace vowed U.S. forces will “track down” the attackers. “We are going to go after these networks that are killing our soldiers and Marines regardless of where that network leads,” Pace told reporters at the Pentagon. “Sometimes it leads to Iranians, sometimes it leads to Iraqis, sometimes it leads to al Qaeda. Wherever the network takes us, we are going to track them down and deal with them.” Pace spoke about the...