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A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the list of threatened and endangered species, denying an attempt by federal officials to reverse an earlier court ruling.
One frustrated client hurled a piece of concrete through the window of a welfare agency. Another threw her car keys at a welfare worker before being escorted away. At one point, a woman on public assistance even took a swing at a worker.
When 64-year-old Jimale Irobe was a young man, he guided his herds of cows and camels through knee-high grass.
The European Union has launched an investigation into a prized Spanish wetland that has turned bone dry through mismanagement of water resources and is now on fire underground, white smoke now rising from areas where fish once swam.
The European Union agreed Tuesday on tougher penalties to counter illegal fishing, considered a major cause of the depletion of fish stocks in European waters, particularly of prized cod and bluefin tuna.
Federal officials say a court ruling that returned Yellowstone grizzly bears to the threatened species list has unexpectedly put the animals at increased risk.
Federal wildlife officials estimate that measures needed to protect the California red-legged frog will cost developers up to $507 million over the next two decades.
A Russian journalist says he has been threatened with violence and forced into hiding after posting a Web article critical of Soviet army veterans.
Facing the combined pressures of climate change, hunters and lax protections, 600 grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park are going back on the threatened species list under a federal court order issued Monday.
Journalists face increasing threats when they report on companies and governments damaging the environment, a media rights group said Thursday, citing arrests, violence and disappearances of those who denounce deforestation, pollution and other damage.
Authorities say a New Jersey teenager threatened to rape and kill his teacher if she did not give his entire class an "A++" for the last school year.
A death row chaplain is facing dismissal after he acknowledged smuggling out letters for a condemned inmate who has posted Internet messages threatening a state lawmaker and that man's family, Texas prison officials said Friday.
The coach of a second-division soccer club in Brazil says armed men threatened players in the locker room after a loss.
The booming oil hub called Port Fourchon, a nerve center in the nation's oil supply chain, is turning into a sitting duck for hurricanes as the beach that protects it from the Gulf of Mexico washes away.
An independent newspaper in a Russian province near Chechnya is facing closure on charges of carrying extremist statements — an accusation its editor denounced as an attempt to stifle criticism of police brutality.
A tax preparer already facing charges of stealing from his clients has been arrested on a new charge of threatening to kill the prosecutor on his theft case and dump her body in acid.
Former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano has pleaded not guilty to threatening a Los Angeles Times reporter who wrote about one of his high-powered clients.
As a lightning-sparked fire charred thousands of acres in southwestern New Mexico, biologists and firefighters used helicopters and trucks for an unusual evacuation.
Schoolchildren crowd into the barracks of this former immigration station, poring over poems of sadness and longing carved into the walls by the million-plus immigrants who passed through the "Ellis Island of the West" decades ago.
A dam-building spree in China poses the greatest threat to the future of the already beleaguered Mekong, one of the world's major rivers and a key source of water for the region, a U.N. report said Thursday.
With almost all stocks overfished, the European Commission on Wednesday called for drastic cuts in the EU's 90,000-strong fishing fleet and subsidies to safeguard a sustainable and economically viable fishing industry.
Suspected Taliban militants bombed five schools in Pakistan's Swat valley Monday as part of a campaign against girls' education in the country's lawless northwest.
Hall of Fame receiver Michael Irvin says he calmly chatted with a gunman in another vehicle after the armed passenger turned out to be a Dallas Cowboys fan.
A gardener detained along with more than a dozen members of an alleged drug trafficking ring testified that police threatened him to feed him to lions and tigers during a raid at a Mexico City mansion, a newspaper reported Friday.
Fourth-grader Ricardo Ivan Ortega knows he is a target in this violent city. His school closed temporarily last month after an anonymous note demanded teachers hand over their year-end bonuses — or students would be kidnapped.
Crisis for the world's amphibiansA third of all species of amphibian are threatened with extinction; nearly half are in decline, and they are the most threatened of all the vertebrate groups.
State of the Birds The United States is home to a tremendous diversity of native birds, with more than 800 species inhabiting terrestrial, coastal, and ocean habitats, including Hawaii. Among these species, 67 are federally listed as endangered or threatened.
Man Accused Of Threatening To Blow Up Police Department -A Sheboygan man is accused of stealing a car and later telling police he was a terrorist who planned to blow up the Police Department and kill his probation officer.
Police officer arrested for threatening driver An off-duty police officer with the city of Longboat Key was arrested Wednesday after Sarasota Police say she threatened a woman after she tried to turn her car around in the officer's driveway.
Cops: Woman pummels clerk after feud over $20 billDelaware State Police said a woman punched a gas station clerk in the face and held scissors to his throat in a dispute over how much money she had given him.
SWAT called in after man threatens cab driver over $6 fare A man barricaded himself inside his Tampa home Sunday night after he wouldn't pay a cab fare and threatened the driver.
Transgender teen wants genderless bathrooms A transgender teen is lending his voice to a movement in Vermont to require the state's middle and high schools to offer genderless bathrooms.
Ex-detainees Allege Bagram Abuse in BBC InterviewsBBC interviews of former detainees found numerous "allegations of abuse" at the United States "detention facility" in Bagram, Afghanistan
Builders want endangered bird reclassifiedThe Florida Home Builders Association is asking the federal government to upgrade the status of an endangered bird its attorney calls an "albatross" for the state's economy.
'Hit A Cat I'll Hit Your Kid' Draws Concerns A Lodi woman posted a sign with the words, "Hit a cat, I'll hit your kid." Some neighbors said they are concerned their children's lives are being threatened. "Basically what this is saying is: Hit a cat and I'll hit your kid," said Tina Teixeira.
Teen Accused Of Bringing Loaded, Sawed-Off Shotgun To SchoolA judge denied bond Tuesday for a young man accused of bringing a loaded, sawed-off shotgun into an Athens school. Police said Tory Favors, 17, threatened another student with the weapon. The incident now has the school district changing its security policy.
Officer to suspect: Stop punching yourself or I'll Tase youExcerpt: A man who reportedly had a stolen ATM card in his sock had to be threatened with a Taser before he stopped punching himself in the face.
Teen charged in attack on parents - Girl pulled knives after having her cell phone taken away, police sayExcerpt: A 16-year-old Laurel girl threatened her parents with two large kitchen knives early Sunday after her father confiscated her cell phone.
Robbery Suspect Hides Face With Paper TowelPOLK COUNTY, Fla. -- Polk County detectives hope surveillance pictures will help them catch a robber who tried to hide his face with a paper towel.
No prosecution in bird-beating case---For the first article about the incident, which gives more details, go to My comment section below for the link.--- Excerpt: The Orange County District Attorney's office has decided not to press charges against a tourist from Kansas who was accused of beating a seagull afte …
Student Accused Of Having Gun Could Be Charged As Adult The 16-year-old student who was arrested with a gun at Dillard High School Wednesday might be charged as an adult. Tevin Clark will remain in juvenile custody for at least three weeks while prosecutors decide whether to charge him as an adult.
Edward Lanphear court proceeding rescheduledExcerpt: A pretrial conference for a 46-year-old Saratoga man charged with the abduction and assault of two south Wood County men has been rescheduled for Feb. 13.
CNN Seeks Mental Health Records, Porn Videos Of Melinda DuckettORLANDO, Fla. -- Lawyers representing CNN are seeking sensitive information about Melinda Duckett, who committed suicide shortly after being interviewed by Nancy Grace in 2006, Local 6 News reported.
Cops: Driver Threatened To Cut Kids Over CrumbsMANSFIELD, Texas (AP) -- A school bus driver in Texas has been accused of brandishing a knife and threatening to cut three sixth-graders who left Oreo crumbs on a seat.
Man sentenced in bizarre collar-bomb robbery plotExcerpt: A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison in a deadly bank robbery plot -- described by the judge in the case as "incredibly bizarre" -- in which a pizza deliveryman died when a bomb affixed to his neck exploded.
Josef Fritzl 'plans to plead not guilty' to murder and slaveryExcerpt: Josef Fritzl, the Austrian electrician who raped and incarcerated his daughter in his cellar and fathered seven children by her, will plead not guilty to charges of murder and slavery.
Woman Kidnapped, Bound With Duct TapeVideo: A Knoxville, Tenn., kidnap victim speaks out about her attack.
Threatened plant species make quick comeback Dutch botanists say that a number of threatened plant species are making a quicker comeback than expected.
NKorea threatens to turn SKorea into 'debris'North Korea threatened Tuesday to turn South Korea into "debris" in an unusually strong statement that demanded Seoul halt what the communist state called its policy of confrontation.
U.S. coral reefs under threat, report findsHalf of U.S. coral reefs are in poor or fair condition, threatened by climate change and human activities like sports fishing, shipping and the release of untreated sewage, a U.S. government report said on Monday.
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