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A shocking report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) states that one of the United States top experts in biological and chemical weapons was brutally murdered after he threatened to expose a US Military test of poison gas that killed hundreds of thousands of animals in Arkansas this past week. According to this report, John P. Wheeler III, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. from 2005-2008, when he became the Special Assistant to the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Logistics and Environment, was found brutally...

This video about a beach in Louisiana which was contaminated by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from over a month, sadly kills a bird in the process. A legacy of President Barak Obama.

"A Half Moon Bay man who shot an ostrich to death after the flightless bird pummeled him and his friend when they trespassed on a coastal ranch was ordered released Thursday after serving five months in jail for animal abuse. Jonathon Porter, 20 -- who prosecutors say killed for revenge after the bird humiliated him in front of women he was trying to impress -- was sentenced Thursday by Judge John Grandsaert, in effect, to time served. He was also placed on probation and ordered to attend animal-cruelty counseling." ""Apparently the young ladies expressed an interest in seeing the ostriches,"...

Today I saw a black bird fall dead from the sky. I was pulling into the Pet Smart parking lot right there next to the Reliant Stadium when something in the sky caught my eye. It fell for quite a ways and hit the parking lot. I pulled up to it and it was a black bird. I think they call them ravens here. Anyway, there were no power lines or anything anywhere above the bird, so it must have died while flying in mid-air. The first thing I thought of was West Nile virus. The only other thing I...

LOS ANGELES - Mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus have been discovered in Glendale and the San Fernando Valley and five people in San Bernardino County have contracted the disease, prompting health officials Friday to warn of a potentially critical health threat. Mosquitoes trapped in early June in Granada Hills, North Hills and Glendale were determined late Thursday to be carrying the potentially deadly virus. Officials with the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District expressed concern at the discovery so early in the mosquito season -- a fear borne out Friday afternoon when state officials reported that five people...