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A pair of Cornell University students killed a 120-pound black bear before bringing the carcass back to their dorm where they skinned and butchered the remains, officials said Thursday. The two undergrads who had "valid New York State hunting licenses killed a bear lawfully over the weekend," a Cornell spokesperson said in a statement. The students then "brought the animal into a Cornell residence hall for processing on Saturday" before a "police report was made when a complaint was filed late Sunday night, but no charges have been filed,” the school official added. An investigator with the Department of Environmental...

Two people have died in Louisiana after contracting flesh-eating bacteria from raw oysters, and state officials warned of an increase in cases. The oysters were infected with Vibrio vulnificus, a type of bacteria found in coastal waters and peaking in May through October when temperatures are warmer. People can be sickened when eating raw or undercooked shellfish, especially oysters. This year, 17 cases of Vibrio vulnificus have been reported in Louisiana as of July 31, and four have died. Salmonella outbreak linked to recalled eggs; 95 sick since January “During the same time period over the previous 10 years, an...

The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite new world screwworm has been detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services said early Monday. The case, related to a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador, was confirmed to be screwworm by the CDC on Aug. 4, HHS spokesman Andrew G. Nixon confirmed to Reuters, who first reported the story. "The risk to public health in the United States from this introduction is very low," he said. Reuters reported last week, citing U.S. beef industry sources, that a person in Maryland contracted the parasite after...

BANGOR, Maine — The Maine Department of Public Safety is grieving the unexpected death of Baxter, a 3-year-old chocolate lab who brought comfort and companionship to emergency responders as the state's first official comfort dog. Baxter was found dead at about 2 p.m. Wednesday in a state vehicle, which was parked at the Bangor Regional Communications Center. Advertisement The DPS said the vehicle unexpectedly stopped running, which caused its air conditioning system to shut down. According to the National Weather Service, Bangor reached a high temperature of 83 degrees on Wednesday. State officials said the vehicle was regularly used to...

Two hikers who were lost on Cascade Mountain in New York after ingesting hallucinogenic mushrooms called 911 to report their hiking companion was dead on Saturday, May 24. Turns out, the other hiker was still very much alive. According to New York Department of Environmental Conservation officials, forest rangers received a report of a deceased hiker on Cascade Mountain at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 24. Two hikers had called 911 to report the third member of their hiking party had died. When the hikers encountered the Cascade summit steward, the pair said that they were lost. The steward determined...

The CEO and public figurehead of Market Basket, one of the region’s most popular grocery store chains, has been put on administrative leave, rekindling memories of a different intra-family squabble in 2014 that shook the company to its core. Arthur T. Demoulas, as well as several other top employees, are being investigated for what the executive committee of the grocery chain’s board of directors is calling “credible allegations” that he was planning “a disruption of the business and operations of Market Basket with a work stoppage.” The company’s board alleges that “Demoulas has also resisted an appropriate succession plan for...

It took eight years, but a farmer in Massachusetts won his long fight to prove he didn't owe his town $300,000 in taxes. In fact, when it was all over, they owed Bill Griggs $31,000. Back in 2022, the town of Billerica claimed Griggs owed roughly $300,000 in back taxes. That's because Griggs stopped paying his taxes altogether in 2017. He claimed they had been overtaxing his land incorrectly since 1997. "I want to know what I'm being taxed for," Griggs said at the time. Bill Griggs, owner of Griggs Farm in Billerica CBS Boston Billerica farm taxed too much...

Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who once described himself as “Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular,” announced Monday that he was running for Congress. “The entrenched interests are fighting President [Donald] Trump at every turn as he works to fix problems,” the former two-term Republican governor said on social media. “We need more straight talk to help take back Washington.” A former businessman turned outspoken and divisive political figure, LePage is seeking the 2nd District seat represented by Rep. Jared Golden, one of 13 House Democrats to hold seats that Trump carried last fall. In fact, voters in the...

A police officer in Johnston, Rhode Island, shot a man who drove a car at him at a gas station late Saturday night. According to WJAR, the shooting stemmed from an incident around 11:30 p.m,. Saturday, when Johnston police responded to a report of a disturbance at a Shell gas station on Hartford Avenue. A witness called 911 to say that there was an ongoing argument between a man and a woman. Johnston police said the driver stepped on the gas as the officer approached the car, hitting the officer. The officer then fired multiple rounds at the driver. The...

A New Hampshire woman was arrested on Friday after police found footage of her urinating on food products at a local grocery store among a trove of online videos documenting similar disgusting acts dating back four years. Kelli Tedford, 23, allegedly tainted a slew of products at Monadnock Food Co-op in New Hampshire with her urine — costing the grocery store roughly $1,500 for the ruined products and cleaning expenses, the Keene Police Department said in a press release. The grocery store also had to issue a recall for its organic quinoa, cornmeal, polenta, coconut shreds and raw walnuts after...

A white 15-year-old in Massachusetts has admitted to carrying out a racially-motivated attack last year in which he tried to drown a Black teen while calling him racial slurs and referring to the victim as “George Floyd” because he was unable to breathe. John P. Sheeran earlier this month pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon, the Cape Cod Times reported. Sheeran is charged as a “youthful offender,” meaning Barnstable Juvenile Court Judge Sylvia Gomes could still choose to sentence him as an adult. Under Massachusetts’ youthful offender statute, prosecutors...

What if someone were publicly murdered in cold blood in the middle of Manhattan and President Trump shrugged it off with this statement? “You can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands.” But it wasn’t Trump on TV ranting out that vile hate speech. That insurrection-fomenting diatribe was spewed out by the fakest of fake Indians – Sen. Elizabeth Warren. She’s as phony and as morally bankrupt as her comrades in regime-controlled media. So her Democrat fellow travelers say as one: Nothing to see here folks, move along. Being a fake...

The Supreme Court follows the election returns. That’s an old saying from a fictional Chicago bartender named Mr. Dooley. And now it appears that locally, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct likewise follows the election returns. Which is not good news for District Court Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, the disgraced $207,855-a-year hack who got her black robes the old-fashioned way. She was a member of the Democrat State Committee. From Brookline. How much more do you need to know about her? But here’s more proof of terrible she is: She was appointed by busst-out Gov. Charlie Baker. Of course...

Tania Fernandes Anderson has only two options left if she wants to beat the rap. First, she could go down to the courthouse and change her last name to “Biden” – in which case, a pardon is guaranteed, automatic. Second, she could renounce her recent naturalization as a US citizen and declare herself to be an illegal alien again – in which case, not only is she immune from prosecution from any crime, but she will also be given police protection from the G-men by Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu. And she could also go back on welfare....

A more accurate headline would have been: “Joe Biden Pardons His Bagman.” Yes, I understand, the pardon was issued to Hunter Biden, who happens to be the son of the worst president in U.S. history, now leaving office in disgrace and humiliation. But the real reason Hunter Biden got the blanket pardon is not so much because he is Dementia Joe’s son. He got it because for decades he served as the family bagman – the guy who traveled around the world collecting millions in payoffs for the racketeering enterprise known as the Biden Crime Family. Do not doubt me....

The Air Line Pilots Association says Airbus is proposing adding a toilet to the flight deck of its aircraft to eliminate the need for relief pilots and pave the way for single-pilot operations or Extended Minimum Crew Operations (eMCO). According to paddleyourowncanoe.com, the planemaker wants to put the open potty behind the captain's seat and perhaps install a radio console beside it so the otherwise indisposed can stay in contact with the outside world. As might be expected, pilot unions are dumping all over the plan. "Think about that for a moment; that's no-pilot ops," the publication quoted an unnamed...

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, during a recent conversation with journalist Bari Weiss, made some startling revelations. Noonan calls herself a conservative and was once a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. But like most mainstream conservative commentators of that era, Noonan abandoned both her conservative and journalistic principles to devolve into a rabid hater of President Trump. She believed the hoaxes against President Trump, particularly the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. When she was proven wrong, instead of accepting her mistake, she claimed she didn’t “know what to think of Trump/Russia” and wasn't "satisfied we’ll ever fully understand it.” In such...

A Russian spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) didn’t just bring supplies to the ISS—it also brought a foul odor. The unpleasant aroma was strong enough to prompt astronauts to close the hatch connecting it to the rest of the space station and initiate anti-contamination procedures. The Progress 90 cargo ship arrived at the Russian module at 9:31 a.m. ET on Saturday, November 23, delivering about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for members of the Expedition 72 crew on board the ISS. After opening the hatch between Progress and the Poisk module, the crew noticed a...

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., took aim at Secretary of State Antony Blinken after it was reported that the State Department held therapy sessions for employees who were upset by President-elect Trump’s election victory. "I am concerned that the Department is catering to federal employees who are personally devastated by the normal functioning of American democracy through the provision of government-funded mental health counseling because Kamala Harris was not elected President of the United States," Issa said in a letter to Blinken last week. The letter comes after a Free Beacon report earlier this month that detailed two alleged therapy sessions...

New Hampshire shelter is asking for help after a man surrendered plastic tubs full of mice on Monday. The New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the “overwhelmed” man came into the shelter on Monday. He said he had around 150 tanks with mice in them in his home. The statement said he brought three large plastic tubs to the shelter that same day, which held a combined 73 mice. Shelter staff said they made house trips on Tuesday and Wednesday and took over 400 mice from the man. The statement said the mice were not...