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A junior hockey team in Wisconsin is under fire for killing a bat that flew into its arena during a game.
Wildlife biologists studying a mysterious fungus killing off hundreds of thousands of bats around America want to find out if they can repopulate caves decimated by the disease.
A jury on Wednesday found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.
A woman surprised by a man in the front room of her home near Council Bluffs grabbed a plastic toy bat and hit him repeatedly until he ran out the front door. The Pottawattamie County sheriff's office said the 26-year-old woman was taking a bath Wednesday night with her 3-year-old child when she noticed a cat who normally stays outside had entered the bathroom. Thinking this odd, she dressed and walked into the front room, where she saw a man standing over her 4-year-old son, who was sleeping in a recliner.
British American Tobacco PLC said Wednesday that Richard Burrows, a former governor of the Bank of Ireland, will become the company's new chairman later this year.
British American Tobacco PLC reported Thursday that its first half profit rose 16 percent from a year earlier to 1.45 billion pounds ($2.38 billion) as top brands such as Lucky Strike showed better sales.
College baseball is getting ready to crack down on composite-barrel bats.
A mysterious fungus attacking America's bats could spread nationwide within years and represents the most serious threat to wildlife in a century, experts warned Congress Thursday.
The U.S. Forest Service is closing thousands of caves and former mines in national forests in 33 states in an effort to control a fungus that has already killed an estimated 500,000 bats.
Congressional members from 13 states are asking the Obama administration for emergency funding to keep bats alive.
Citing a widespread die-off of bats from West Virginia to New England, federal officials are asking people to stay out of all caves in states where the animals have been found with a disease known as "white-nose syndrome."
Bats afflicted with a mysterious and deadly disorder might be able to make it through winter with the help of heated boxes placed in hibernation caves, a pair of researchers say.
The grieving family of a minor league pitcher who died six months after being traded for 10 baseball bats said John Odom's overdose came after a night of partying gone wrong.
A judge has sentenced a mother to three months in jail for hitting a convicted sex offender with an aluminum baseball bat.
Former All-Star Jose Offerman was sued Thursday in a bat-wielding attack at a minor league game that injured two opposing players.
A mysterious and deadly bat disorder discovered just two winters ago in a few New York caves has now spread to at least six northeastern states, and scientists are scrambling to find solutions before it spreads across the country.
Police are looking for an irate pet lover so intent on liberating his lost cat that he wielded a bat to fend off animal shelter employees. Dallas Animal Shelter manager Kent Robertson said the man found his missing gray and blue short-haired cat at the shelter, where it had been brought by someone who thought it was a stray.
British American Tobacco PLC, Europe's largest cigarette maker, said Thursday net profit rose 9.5 percent in the third quarter on better sales of global brands, particularly in emerging markets, and a gain from changes in currency values.
About 90 elementary school students in Montana have started a series of rabies shots after a parent let them touch a dead bat that was later confirmed to be diseased.
It wasn't just the caffeine that gave an Iowa woman an extra jolt after she had her morning coffee. It was also the bat she found in the filter.
While movie fans the world over rave about the new Batman film, the only stir bats are causing in this poor farming village is in a cooking pot.
In a Feb. 13 story about a fossil of a previously unrecognized bat species, The Associated Press reported erroneously when the species lived. The bat species lived about 52 million years ago, not 25.5 million.
A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they started flying.
Of all the bones Evel Knievel broke over the years, the costliest may have been the left arm of a PR man by the name of Shelly Saltman. Saltman won $12.75 million in damages against Knievel after the motorcycle daredevil attacked him with a baseball bat in 1977 in a rage over a book Saltman had written about the showman.
Former major league All-Star Jose Offerman was granted probation Tuesday and ordered to get anger management treatment for a bat-wielding attack during a minor league game that injured two opposing players.
Ozzy Osbourne: I was a beast. Absolutely terrifyingIn an exclusive extract from the autobiography no one thought he would live to write, the singer recalls the booze, the bedlam — and the bat
Passing gas not a crime; what happened next was When a man passed gas, it was rude. But when he took a baseball bat to his friend's vehicle, it became a crime, Volusia County deputy sheriffs said.
Mom: Son Beat Me While Dad Urged Him OnThe ex-husband of a Lawrence woman was bound over for trial after the woman testified that he urged his son on while the boy beat her with a bat.
Wal-Mart worker accused of beating boss with batPolice in New Haven accused a Wal-Mart worker of beating an assistant manager in a store aisle with an aluminum baseball bat after getting reprimanded for the second time in a few days. Officer Joseph Avery said Tuesday that police are still looking for the 26-year-old suspect.
Homeowner clobbers burglar with batonPORT ST. LUCIE — A 22-year-old man was charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor criminal mischief Saturday after being accused of trying to enter a Port St. Lucie home, according to an arrest affidavit from the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office.
Space Eulogies: Shuttle-Riding Bat Dies The Most Glorious Death ImaginableBereft of his ability to fly and with nowhere to go, a courageous bat climbed aboard our Discovery with stars in his weak little eyes. The launch commenced, and Spacebat trembled as his frail mammalian body was gently pushed skyward.
Bat Hung onto Shuttle During LiftoffA bat that was clinging to space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank during the countdown to launch the STS-119 mission remained with the spacecraft as it cleared the tower, analysts at NASA's Kennedy Space Center concluded.
Sharpton Steps In To Defend L.I. Bat Attack VictimThe injured man's family asked for the reverend's help because they have been horrified at the way the story has been playing out. They said the baseball bat attack that put Daryl Jackson in the hospital Sunday morning was racially motivated, period
Off-Duty NYPD Officer Beats Black Man With BatEveryone has seen someone standing in front of a liquor store or any small store asking for change? Well, it appears that if you're a black man standing outside a Long Island Deli you might become the victim of a hate crime if you are soliciting. It's not certain that he …
Warming might help farmers best friends: batsWarming can help ward off premature deaths of bats in the Northeast. Bats play an important role in the human food chain.
Superloud Moth Jams Bat SonarA gray moth with orange highlights called Bertholdia trigona "goes berserk," making lots of noise above the range of human hearing when a hunting bat approaches, says William Conner of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Researchers Study Bats to Enhance Micro Air Vehicles. US Air Force. Jan 9, 2009 ARLINGTON, Va: Air Force-funded researchers from several universities are studying the flexible, flapping wings routinely used by bats and insects and mimicking their biological attributes to improve agility, speed and adaptability in micro air vehicle systems.
Cricket rules, scoring and resultsAll cricket rules are here!! For those of you new to this game.. here is a good starting point.. even those returning cricket lovers who want to refer to some rule this could be a great help..
How vampires evolved to live on blood aloneAny mad scientists planning to genetically engineer Dracula this Halloween should look to the vampire bat for inspiration.
Mom brings rabid bat to school, lets kids touch itAbout 90 elementary school students in Montana have started a series of rabies shots after a parent let them touch a dead bat that was later confirmed to be diseased.
(Caught on tape) Violent 'Wilding' Crime Rampage Captured on Multiple Cameras"They were picking random victims...and having a good time doing it." See more irresistible headlines
Evidence mounts that we're in midst of mass extinction eventGlobal mass-extinction event is happening in our lifetime, preponderance of scientific literature suggests. Loss of bats, amphibians, and marine species especially troubling. Synergy of human population growth and unsustainable development are most likely causes.
Rising Food Prices Prompt British Government To Urge FrugalityEvoking an era of World War II austerity, British families are being urged to cut food waste and use leftovers in a nationwide effort to fight sharply rising global food prices.
Receptionist stunned to find a baby bat in her BRAWhen Abbie Hawkins felt a strange vibrating sensation in her bra while at work she simply assumed that it was her mobile phone ringing.
Teenager finds baby bat in her bra A teenager was stunned to find that a baby bat had been curled up inside her bra for five hours - as she was wearing it.
The twirling bear strikes again...This time with a baseball batTwo baseball bats were presented to a bear drawing applause from visitors, after his performance of twirling a stick at a zoo in Hiroshima City, western Japan. Claud, a male Asiatic black bear at Asa Zoo, began twirling a branch when he was playing with it five years ago.
Baseball Player Kills Duck With BatDerike Bennett, 18, a student at Baldwin Middle Senior High School, was charged with animal cruelty, WJXT-TV reported. Witnesses said the teen killed a duck on school property by striking the animal with a bat after being dared by his teammates.
Northeastern bats are dying at an alarming rate, and nobody knows whyA mysterious condition that is already decimating bat populations in New York, Massachusetts and Vermont has spread to Connecticut, with vast implications not only for bats but for the vital role they play in controlling mosquito populations.
Bat Flight - Aerodynamics: Flapping Past Gravity's Pull, Bat Has a Vortex at Its WingsThe power to fly is so handy that it has arisen multiple times during the evolution of life, but it does not come cheap.
Prehistoric bats learned to fly before they could "see"We all know the adage "you have to learn to walk before you run". But what about learning to see before you fly? It seems like a logical progression, but it's not the way things happened for bats, a recent study co-authored by the Royal Ontario Museum suggests.
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