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Kevin Wayne Reddick, 35, appeared in provincial court in Gander this morning on charges related to an incident on Friday in which a woman was shot in the chest while she was near a pond off Philpott's Road, just outside the town of Lewisporte. The woman, who is from Little Burnt Bay, is in stable condition and is recovering in hospital, police say. Reddick, who was apparently moose hunting at the time, is facing charges including: careless use of a firearm; unauthorized possession of a firearm; possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized; possession of a weapon for...

When people from away think of Maine, what’s the first thing that comes to their minds? “Isn’t it winter there, like, ten months a year?” “I think it’s part of Canada. Or Sweden.” “Stephen King is the governor. Or the governor is some other psycho like him.” Which just goes to show that people from away are idiots. What they’re supposed to think of when the subject of Maine comes up is a rockbound coastline with lighthouses, lobsters being plucked from the sea and plopped into steamers, hardy rural types tapping maple trees each spring in order to listen in...

A camel broke free from its farm in Saudi Arabia and ran amok through the streets, damaging cars and sending frightened people into their homes. The camel chased passers by and smashed car windows as it kept running astray through the streets of the western town of Taif. Its owner chased and tried to stop the animal but could not and the situation was quickly reversed when the owner was himself chased by the camel. “Car started to honk and this made the camel more mad…after wreaking havoc, the camel ran out of the streets and disappeared,” the Arabic language...

This time of fall, transition time for me and the critters, a time of migration, a time of storing up food for winter, a time to slow down a bit, a time, perhaps for reflection. A brief hike on Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge earlier this week produced a surprising number of biting mosquitoes, the few photo opportunities that I had were hampered by mosquitoes that seemed to be landing on me with mouths already open and immediately inflicting pain. I managed to get an image of this chipping sparrow in between mosquito bites! Mid-October biting mosquitoes, who’d have guessed?...

Hardly a week has gone by this autumn without reports of serious collisions between vehicles and moose in Norway. A new study indicates motorists aren’t taking posted warnings about moose on the roads seriously. Moose wander dangerously close to roads and into urban areas at all times of the year, but autumn seems to be high season. PHOTO: Morten Andersen Several of the accidents in recent weeks have been serious indeed, with one collision tearing off the entire roof of a car that hit a fully-grown moose on a country road in Østfold, southeast of Oslo. Both occupants of the...

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I'm definitely in MNF dt's. The wife is mad at me the Fox "Terra Nova" sucks. Jack Daniels is my only comfort. (Which might explain why the wife's mad at me but I'm not sure because she won't talk to me.) Now,let's deal with Cain,Romney,Perry and whoever might arise from the mire. Let me cut to the chase. Your next King has been chosen and it is Barack Obama. Back in 2008 I was barraged by calls for Obama. I asked one question. "What qualifies Obama to be President?" I never got an answer to that question. One poor bastard...

Check out Hank's new song in response to espn and the jokers at fox and friends.

'Many deaf and hard-of-hearing people have been left bemused by some unfortunate mistakes in the BBC’s computer generated subtitles. The errors asked for ‘a moment of violence’ to commemorate the Queen Mother at her funeral and mistakenly called the Archbishop of Canterbury the ‘Arch b*tch of Canterbury’. Mistakes are so frequent they’ve prompted the creation of a website dedicated to sharing the gaffes. Live subtitles are generated by speech recognition as someone talks into a microphone while listening to a programme, or by a stenographer typing words manually. A news reporter visiting a farm spoke of the pigs’ habit of...

In the long term, the Pagami Creek fire still burning east of Ely, Minn., should improve moose habitat, clearing the bramble to make way for saplings and berries that the animals love to munch on. But for now, the forest fire is proving problematic for moose hunters, many of whom have been unable to access the territory they are permitted to hunt starting Saturday. The situation has led the state Department of Natural Resources to offer refunds for the cost of permits. Those permits, for what is often known as "the hunt of a lifetime," are a coveted commodity that...

Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is going to use this teeny, tiny space to talk about a huge, but under-acknowledged local problem: moose alcoholism. As you can see from the disturbing photo above, this is a growing issue in our community, with moose practically dropping everything to chase down Coors trucks and other such madness. We can no longer look the other way. But our concern is not only for the well being of our local fauna — we can't have our moose developing hangovers or liver disease — but also for...

Moose gut pile leads to Alaska bear mauling

When Dave Collie looked out his window Monday morning he saw a very unusual sight. A moose was hanging about in the yard outside Collie's house on Bayview Court. "My neighbor phoned me at about 7:00 am and said to look out my window because there was a moose just outside our house." Collie was able to tip toe about 50 feet away from the moose and snap some photos. "He decided to lay down for about half an hour. I went out to see if I could perhaps get a better shot, but he just got up and moved...

A moose hunter attacked by a grizzly bear north of the Denali Highway survived the severe mauling Monday after hiking to his camp, traveling by boat downriver to a wilderness lodge then getting an airlift via Alaska Air National Guard helicopter to an Anchorage hospital. Donald "Skip" Sanford, 65, was hunting about five miles upriver from the Maclaren River Lodge when the bear attacked, according to Alaska State Troopers. Sanford had been hunting with his son John, 12, his friend Monty Dyson, 47, and Dyson's son Chad, 22, Dyson said. Dyson relayed Sanford's story Tuesday by radio phone from the...

A woman was taken to the Whitbourne Clinic for observation Sunday evening after the car she was in collided with a moose on the Trans-Canada Highway. The accident happened just before 8:30 p.m. in the Hodgewater Line area about 100 kilometres west of St. John’s. RCMP said the woman's injuries were not serious. Early Monday morning, RCMP from the Holyrood detachment reported there was a moose-vehicle accident between Makinsons and Bay Roberts. The moose was killed. Police didn’t say if anyone in the vehicle was injured.

Two drivers received minor injuries after running into moose on the Outer Ring Road outside St. John's Friday morning. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said a pickup truck hit two moose. Then a sport utility vehicle that had been following the truck hit one of the animals. The accident happened in the eastbound lanes between Topsail Road and Thorburn Road. Meanwhile, the RNC also said a vehicle hit a moose on the Southern Shore highway, south of St. John's, on Thursday evening. The driver sustained minor injuries.

A drunk Swedish moose had to be cut free from an apple tree after an intoxicating evening foraging for fruit. The silly moose suffered the fate of many an intoxicated human after a night of heavy drinking - and found himself in a very embarrassing predicament. Police believe the inebriated elk got into a state after eating fermented apples, and got stuck while trying to reach fruit higher up the tree. The binge-drinking beast somehow managed to wedge itself into the branches of the tree with all four legs off the ground. Fire crews had to chop down the tree...

Woman Hits Moose With Car After Sister Hits Moose With Car The moose of Canada are stalking and haunting Connie Evirett and Yvonne Studley, two car-driving sisters from British Columbia. Last month Studley, 49, had a car accident involving one of the beasts; the melee left her in a coma, and the moose in a moose coffin. Then, while on the way to the hospital to visit her younger sister, 51-year-old Evirett had a moose/car accident of her own. Everitt told a reporter: "My first thought was, 'Are the moose going out [on a] hunting season for my family?'" Seems...

Starting today, September 1, most Pay Per View services are offering "The Undefeated". Dish Network has it on channel 538.

For the first time, this year's aerial surveys indicated a statistically significant decline - down from more than 8,000 in 2006 - in the moose population of northeastern Minnesota, including the Arrowhead region. The population in the northwestern part of the state already has collapsed, down to about 100 animals from more than 4,000 in 1986. This as the range of the moose has shriveled steadily since the 1960s, when moose could be spotted all across the northern part of the state. A new draft plan released by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources last week spells out not only...