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Senate panel votes to ease landfill restrictions
A state Senate committee voted Wednesday to ease some landfill restrictions imposed six years ago by reducing the distances that dumps must be from protected lands and narrowing the reasons why permit applications can be rejected. The measure would roll back a 2007 law designed at the time to discourage ...
Montana court says bison transfer legal
The relocation of Yellowstone National Park bison to tribal lands in Montana can resume, under a Wednesday ruling from the state's Supreme Court that revives a stalled conservation initiative for the animals. Bison, also known as buffalo, once numbered in the tens of millions across North America, before overhunting drove ...
2nd rabid skunk found in St. Cloud
St. Cloud health officials confirm a second skunk with rabies has been found in the city. St. Cloud Health Director Lisa Schreifels says the skunk had not had any human or animal contact. Schreifels says the skunk found this week was acting lethargic. Animal control officials were able to capture ...
New MERS virus spreads easily, deadlier than SARS
A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi Arabia. More than 60 cases of what is now called MERS, including 38 deaths, have been recorded by the ...
Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials
Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, June 18, 2013 Immigration reform possible Immigration reform is a buzzword that comes packaged with some emotional punch. On one side, many people don't want reform unless the U.S. borders are controlled to keep illegal immigrants out. On the other hand, a bipartisan group of South ...
A sampling of editorials from around New York
The Daily Gazette of Schenectady on New York's deal with its Indian tribes and casino gambling. June 16 Gov. Andrew Cuomo's hardball tactics with upstate New York's three Indian tribes paid off, culminating with Thursday's agreement for the Senecas to pay the state $135 million a year in revenues from ...
Denver Zoo gives cancer treatment to lion
An elderly lion at the Denver Zoo is getting special medical care for cancer. The treatment is based on therapy typically used for domestic cats suffering from lymphoma. According to the Denver Post (http://tinyurl.com/kdgfmtd ), zookeepers noticed in March that the lion named Rian had grown lethargic. Tests found a ...
News from around Wisconsin at 5:28 a.m. CDT
Republicans negotiate changes to Wisconsin budget MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans privately negotiated a series of last-minute changes to the Wisconsin budget Tuesday designed to smooth its passage, including removing a cap on a popular tax credit program for disabled veterans and delaying the loosening of requirements for high-capacity wells. ...
3 sentenced in Miss. for poaching turkeys
Three Yalobusha County men have pleaded guilty to poaching wild turkeys. Mississippi wildlife officials say in a news release that Jeffery C. Reeves, Randall A. Byford and Anthony C. Davis, will each serve 10 days in the county jail for killing too many turkeys, killing hens, killing them out of ...
Ark. officials confirm avian flu in Scott Co. bird
A chicken in Scott County is confirmed with avian influenza and state officials have quarantined poultry within a 6.2-mile radius around the infected bird's farm. The Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission said Wednesday that the chicken tested positive for H7N7 low pathogenic avian influenza. The agency is coordinating its response ...
Man pleads guilty to smuggling snakes on planes
Samuel L. Jackson would have been cursing up a storm. A Texas man has pleaded guilty to smuggling snakes on several planes from South America to the United States. During a court hearing Wednesday in Tyler, William Lamar pleaded guilty to importing wildlife taken in violation of foreign law. Prosecutors ...
Wis. DNR wants to increase wolf hunt limits
Hunters and trappers would be allowed to kill dozens more wolves during Wisconsin's second wolf hunt this fall, under new quotas released Tuesday by state wildlife officials. Department of Natural Resources officials say the new quotas will help shrink the state's burgeoning wolf population to what they think is its ...
AP top news in Iowa at 3:58 p.m. CDT
DNR warns of swimmer's itch in N. Iowa lake DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources is warning people that a condition called swimmer's itch is being seen at northern Iowa's Crystal Lake. The condition usually is harmless but can cause welts and itching for several days. ...
$3500 reward in fatal poisoning of 2 bald eagles
Federal investigators say someone poisoned and killed two bald eagles in Thibodaux. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are offering $3,500 for information leading to the conviction of whoever killed the national birds. The partly decomposed eagles were found April 11 about ...
Biologist says Iowa's pheasant numbers likely down
A Department of Natural Resources biologist says Iowa's pheasant population likely will decline this year because of the cool and wet spring. DNR upland wildlife biologist Todd Bogenschutz says Iowa's pheasant population usually increases after mild winters and dry, warm springs. This year, a snowy winter was followed by record-setting ...
Pa. man charged with illegally killing black bear
A northeastern Pennsylvania man has been charged with illegally killing a black bear. The Times-Tribune of Scranton (http://bit.ly/11XhOgG ) reports that Pennsylvania Game Commission officers responded last week to what was first reported as a road-killed bear in Berlin Township, Wayne County. They found the 550-pound bear had been shot ...
USGS: Asian carp eggs can incubate in more areas
Two species of invasive Asian carp may be able to spawn in more Great Lakes tributaries than previously thought, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report on Tuesday. Researchers said they hope the new data will help predict where the fish could spawn if they make it from Chicago-area waterways ...
Lawsuits filed against Calif.'s Delta Plan
Several opposing groups have filed lawsuits against a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that was adopted in May. The four suits, filed over the course of the past month by environmental groups and water users, argue the Delta Plan does not fulfill its two ...
Rabid bat found in Hall County home
A rabies alert has been issued in part of Hall County after a rabid bat was found inside of a house in Gainesville. The Gainesville Times reports (http://bit.ly/12QNHed ) the bat was found in a house Friday and has been shipped to the virology section of the Georgia Public Health ...
A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials
Livingston County Daily Press & Argus (Howell). June 12. Poverty root of education problems At nearly the last minute, objections and weak-willed lawmakers are halting the implementation of Common Core curriculum standards in Michigan public schools. By kowtowing to overblown fears of a federal takeover of education, the Republicans in ...
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