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The marsupial, normally native to Australia, has been spotted in the region several times in recent monthsA rare white wallaby has been caught on camera in Warwickshire for a second time. The unusual sight was captured by refuse collectors on their rounds near Kenilworth earlier in the month. The spot where the marsupial was seen was close to the same site a farmer caught it on camera last year. Read more Warwickshire news stories here In October, Jack Smith saw the wallaby while he was planting barley in a field near the same Warwickshire town. There have also been reports...

LANG TOWNSHIP — Police say two-time Olympic gold medalist and Maine resident Seth Wescott got an up-close introduction to a moose this week. Franklin County Sheriff's Department Lt. David Rackliffe says Wescott was driving on Route 16 in Lang Township near his home in rural western Maine just after 1 a.m. Thursday when a moose ran out of the woods and struck the left side of the Olympian's van.

February 13, 2009 SNIPPET: "He was a small-time hoodlum with a big chip on his shoulders, a man who spoke of Jihad, researched bomb-making techniques and looked at a nuclear plant, the Montreal Stock Exchange and a military base as possible terrorism targets. In the end, Omar Bulphred, a 23-year-old native of Algeria, and an accomplice settled for firebombing two Jewish institutions before getting arrested after police heard them talk about abducting a gay man at random to rob him and cut his throat. The troubling story of the two Montreal terrorist wannabes can be told following Mr. Bulphred's guilty...

Calls are rushing into the Homer office of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game about moose that have large "tumors" all over their bodies. The good news is this is a benign disease with no discernable health risk to the moose. The bad news is these unattractive moose won't make the cover of Alaska Magazine. These moose have benign epithelial tumors, or papillomas. In common terms, they have warts. And the warts can be up to 6 inches across.

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ANCHORAGE -- Eagle River resident Glenn Gibeault discovered a dead moose on his quarter-acre near Eagle River Road last month. As the snow started melting, an ear emerged. He called the state Department of Fish and Game. "'It's your moose,'" Gibeault said he was told. If a moose dies alongside a road or in a ditch, Fish and Game will call on a trapper or city or state road crews to haul it off. But if one dies on private property, the homeowner has to dispose of the carcass. "Our policy is once a moose is dead, it's not ours...

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