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South Carolina investigators say wild boars are to blame for a series of possible attacks on horses in the state. (Source: Pexels) CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina investigators say wild boars are to blame for a series of possible attacks on horses in the state. Officials with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division announced on Wednesday that a joint investigation by several law enforcement agencies has been closed based on evidence that the attacks in the Upstate were the results of altercations with boars in the area. The investigation involved five incidents that took place within a four-week...

A huge hog weighing in at a reported 416-pounds was shot in East Texas. “Mr. Joe Clowers shared pics of his food plot nightmare that ended late Saturday night,” Gregg County Game Warden posted to Facebook. Texas Parks and Wildlife estimates that there are more than 1.5 million feral hogs in Texas. There seem to be very few inhibiting factors to curtail this population growth, according to TPWD.gov. Clowers told Chron.com the hog preyed on the fawns in the area and Clowers added that he always stayed armed when visiting his deer feeders in case the hog in question charged...

Wild boars mauled three Islamic State (Isil) fighters to death near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, according to Kurdish fighters. The jihadists’ bodies were found badly mangled by refugees fleeing through farmland as they tried to get away from Isil territory in al-Rashad, southwest of the city.

All presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds it better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent party suffer.” Why Do The Due Process Concerns Of Innocents Outweigh The State Interest Of Convicting Those That Are Responsible For The Shooting In Waco? The Blackstone Ratio, a concept attributed to a famous jurist of the 1860’s named Sir William Blackstone, is commonly accepted as a cornerstone of civil liberties and a free society. Closely related to the idea that an individual is innocent until proven guilty, the Blackstone Ratio means that democratic societies do...

By Aaron Applegate The Virginian-Pilot © January 20, 2014 VIRGINIA BEACH The destructive and fertile wild hogs that roam the marshes around Back Bay are poised for a bumper year. Some of their favorite foods are abundant, and the guy with a knack for trapping them has moved to another job. "I'm sure the pigs did a little dance," said Molly Brown, president of Friends of Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The jig would have been for the departure of David Bishop, an invasive-species biologist who spent the past three years trying to keep in check the state's oldest population...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Who invited the hogs? That's the question being asked by residents of Timber Ridge community in southwest Vero Beach whose yards have been destroyed by a gang of wild hogs. "I saw about five of them a few nights ago," said Timber Ridge resident Brenda Tucker. "They have torn up the yards of about eight houses. They come looking for food, but destroy everything around them. They are big boars that could hurt pets and little children." ... Ogilvie said Animal Control does not pick up wild animals and they often refer residents to the Florida...

About 50 miles east of Waco, Texas, a 70-acre field is cratered with holes up to five feet wide and three feet deep. The roots below a huge oak tree shading a creek have been dug out and exposed. Grass has been trampled into paths. Where the grass has been stripped, saplings crowd out the pecan trees that provide food for deer, opossums and other wildlife. A farmer wanting to cut his hay could barely run a tractor through here. There’s no mistaking what has happened—this field has gone to the hogs.

ST. PETERSBURG — It was a hog, it was angry, and Cassandra Frank hadn't even had her morning coffee yet. Just before 9 a.m. Monday, Frank saw the black swine grunting and shoveling its snout behind her family's yellow stucco home in the 2100 block of 23rd Avenue N. The 200-pound sow came charging at her. Frank tried to get out of the way, but the hog barreled into her. "It got me pretty good," said Frank, 26. Its white tusks pierced the skin on her left calf, and its weight pushed her against a tree. The wild hog stampeded...

1 day ago PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. (AP) — A former elk farm owner was found not guilty Friday of releasing wild pigs into the western Wisconsin countryside after a judge said the witness against him wasn't credible. Robert S. Johnson, 55, was charged with one count of illegally stocking wild animals, a civil offense. State investigators had accused him of bringing 31 wild hogs from Texas to Crawford County in 2002, spawning a feral hog population that has caused thousands of dollars in crop damage. The state Department of Justice was seeking $31,000 in forfeitures — $1,000 for each...

<p>It's early morning at Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve, just south of Palo Alto, and park ranger Susannah Anderson-Minshall sets out for a routine inspection in her truck. She soon notices something that makes her slam on the brakes.</p> <p>A creek that was filled with fresh water until yesterday now looks like a muddy bog. The ground all around is dug up, and ferns and plants lie trampled. She doesn't need to look at the huge, round, footprints in the mud to guess where the blame lies. The culprits are wild pigs, non-native, sharp-tusked, black bristly marauders who have been causing havoc across Northern California's landscape with increasing frequency.</p>