Anchorage resident kills bear, believed to be same one that police used stun gun on

Anchorage resident kills bear
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage resident has fatally shot a small black bear after it tried to enter his home.

Police believe it is the same bear an officer used his Taser on a day earlier in an effort to discourage the animal from hanging around homes in the Hillside area.
Lt. Dave Parker … Read more : Anchorage resident kills bear, believed to be same one that police used stun gun on.

Minn. professor returns from vacation, finds office wrapped in aluminum foil

Professor returns from vacation, gets ‘foiled’

ST. PETER, Minn. – A science professor at Gustavus Adolphus College left for a week’s vacation this summer and returned to a shiny office. Very shiny. Professor Scott Bur’s students had covered his office in aluminum foil. Computer screen, chairs, the ceiling, the floor – all covered in foil. Books [..] Read the original article: here.

Ky. humane society misidentifies woman’s dog as a coyote, sets it loose in the wild

Woman’s dog mistaken for coyote, set loose in wild

FRANKFORT, Ky. – An American Kennel Club-registered dog has been turned loose in the wild after the Frankfort Humane Society mistook her for a coyote. Copper is a female Sheba Inu.
Lori Goodlett told The State-Journal her pet of 11 years disappeared from her fenced back yard on … Read more : Ky. humane society misidentifies woman’s dog as a coyote, sets it loose in the wild.

Fla. lawyer accused of vandalizing home of client who filed complaint against him

Fla. lawyer accused of vandalizing client’s home

LONGWOOD, Fla. – A lawyer was accused of burglarizing the home of a client who filed a complaint against him with the Florida Bar. Albert Ford II was being held on charges of burglary to a structure causing damage, grand theft, criminal mischief and burglary to an occupied dwelling. … Original article on : Fla. lawyer accused of vandalizing home of client who filed complaint against him.

Grand Theft Bear: Colorado critter gets into car, honks horn, then sends it rolling downhill

Colo. bear toots horn, takes car on short joyride

DENVER – A bear got into an empty car, honked the horn and then sent it rolling 125 feet into a thicket, with the bear still inside, a Colorado family said.
Seventeen-year-old Ben Story said he and his family were asleep in their Larkspur home, 30 miles south …. Source article  : Grand Theft Bear: Colorado critter gets into car, honks horn, then sends it rolling downhill.

Alaska cop uses Taser on black bear that was causing problems

Alaska cop uses Taser on black bear
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Alaska police officer used his Taser to discourage a small black bear that had gotten into someone’s fish fryer.

Lt. Dave Parker delivered a 30-second burst of 100,000 volts to scare away the bear from a house.
Parker told the Anchorage Daily News the bear flipped on …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Alaska cop uses Taser on black bear that was causing problems.

Ohio judge says man can’t secede from city and form his own American Indian reservation

Judge: Ohio man can’t form own Indian reservation

LIMA, Ohio – An Ohio man who claimed that his American Indian ancestry makes him exempt from city nuisance laws has been ordered to clean up two homes that have fallen into disrepair.
A judge told William Bowersock on Thursday that he has 30 days to take care of … Original article on : Ohio judge says man can’t secede from city and form his own American Indian reservation.

Lois The Corpse Flower Blooms

HOUSTON (GaeaTimes.com)- The Houston residents are all rushing to the Houston Museum of Natural Science and the reason is compelling enough. They are all going there to witness the rare blooming of a flower which is huge in size and has earned name for a pungent smell that can shock people. Lois the corpse …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Jejune Gets New Meaning, Thanks to Sarah

Washington D.C. (GaeaTimes.com) Jejune mostly used as an adjective bags new meaning. This happened due to usage of the word in a new sense.
Attributes:
jejune
/ddun/ It is Spelled [ji-joon]
Adjective
1.
without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
2.
juvenile; immature; childish: jejune behavior.
3.
lacking knowledge or experience; uninformed: jejune attempts to design a house.
4.
deficient or lacking in nutritive … Original source on Gaea Times at : Jejune Gets New Meaning, Thanks to Sarah.

Alligator to benefit from a dried-up Arizona lake: Fish are on the menu

Gator gets meal as Ariz suburb gathers dead fish

TEMPE, Ariz. – For a hungry alligator, it’s bon appetit.
Hundreds of fish that died when a dam burst and dried up a lake in this Phoenix suburb are being fed to the gator Friday.
The fish were left to die in shallow pools once the dam broke and … Original source on Gaea Times at : Alligator to benefit from a dried-up Arizona lake: Fish are on the menu.

Car kills wandering cow on Ohio interstate, police shoot second one to avoid another accident

Car kills wandering cow on Ohio interstate

CINCINNATI – Authorities near Cincinnati say a car struck and killed a cow that had wandered onto an interstate, and a second cow had to be shot to avoid another accident.
The cows had gotten loose from a farm. Police shutdown Interstate 275 on the city’s west side for about … Original source on Gaea Times at : Car kills wandering cow on Ohio interstate, police shoot second one to avoid another accident.

Here comes the stench: Rare ‘corpse flower’ blooming for 1st time could stink up Texas wedding

‘Corpse flower’ bloom could stink up Texas wedding

HOUSTON – The flower girl at Jessica Zabala’s wedding is purple, six-feet-tall, uninvited and smells like dead bodies.
She is Lois, a rare “corpse flower,” deemed the world’s stinkiest bud.
Lois is unexpectedly blooming in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, in the room right next to where Zabala is … Original source on Gaea Times at : Here comes the stench: Rare ‘corpse flower’ blooming for 1st time could stink up Texas wedding.

Man donning Darth Vader mask and toting gun uses ‘Force’ to rob bank on NY’s Long Island

Man decked out in Darth Vader mask robs NY bank

SETAUKET, N.Y. – Times must be tough back at the Empire.
A bank robber dressed as “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader made off with an undetermined amount of cash after pointing a handgun at startled tellers inside a Chase bank branch on Long Island.
Detectives say the man …. Read the original article  : Man donning Darth Vader mask and toting gun uses ‘Force’ to rob bank on NY’s Long Island.