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GREANEY, Minn. — Beryl Novak bought 40 acres of forest here in 1966 for $700, eventually moved an old one-room shack to the site for a deer hunting cabin and then liked it so much he moved in for good. That was 1977. He hasn’t lived anyplace else since. He hasn’t slept in any other bed, not a single night away, since May 1993. “I’m kind of a homebody,” Novak said. Novak, 71, shot his first deer at age 10, in 1960, hunting alone. He still has the paper hunting license and aluminum buck tag pressed between pages in a...

Michael Cimino, who won Oscars as director and a producer of "The Deer Hunter" before "Heaven's Gate" destroyed his career and sped up the demise of 60-year-old United Artists, has died. He was believed to be 77.

Hunters from all parts of the country go to Kansas hoping to shoot a buck with a trophy-class set of antlers. Well, for Chuck Rorie, half of the dream came true last month when he shot what he thought was a nice buck. Instead, the set of eight-point antlers were attached to a doe. “I didn’t think much about it; it just looked like a nice buck when I was watching it and shot it,” said Rorie, of Monroe. “But when I was skinning it I realized something didn’t look right. It didn’t have the right private parts.

To animal activists, it sounds too far-fetched to be true: Arming teens with shotguns and bows and arrows to thin deer populations in southern Placer County by killing Bambi's mom. "I think it's just absolutely ridiculous," said Victoria Connolly of Auburn. But in response to concerns about an apparent spike in vehicle-vs.-deer collisions on Auburn Folsom Road, county officials are considering just that. The idea is several steps and at least a year from taking place. After examining several alternative plans for reducing deer populations, Placer County Fish and Game Commissioner Gary Flanagan said he's concluded that reducing the number...

MONTICELLO — Queens hunter Edward Taibi pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter on Friday in the shooting death of 16-month-old Charly Ann Skala. snip After he made the plea, Taibi turned to Charly Ann’s grandparents, aunts and uncles who were seated in the courtroom, opened his arms and said, “I am sorry.” snip “This was a travesty and a tragedy that has changed the lives of two people and two families forever,” Taibi said, while standing outside the courtroom following his plea. “I hope one day it brings some kind of closure to the family, some peace and closure in their...

LOWELL, Mass. -- A local dog owner is devastated after her dog was shot and killed. Michelle Verville was walking her dog, Smokey, in the Lowell-Dracut State Forest last week when she heard a gun shot. Smokey, a 4-year-old Labrador retriever, yelped and Verville noticed that her dog had been shot in the stomach. "I just stayed there with him and told him that it was ok, and that we loved him and that he was a good dog, and then he passed," Verville said. it is legal to hunt for deer in State parks from Nov. 26 to Dec....

Deer Hunter Bags 27-Point Buck "It's a dandy. I've deer hunted all my life and I've never seen nothing like it. I'd like to have one like it." Note: Click onto the Breitbart TV link below to watch the video news report of this story.

The explosion put a hole in James Vandenheuvel's skull the size of a soup-can lid. The Iraqi roadside bomb also shattered the Minnesota National Guardsman's femur and tore away part of his right calf. The insurgent attack Feb. 12, 2004, on a desolate road near Abu Ghraib prison killed another soldier and left Vandenheuvel a shattered man - temporarily. On Wednesday, the Saginaw, Minn., resident partook in a time-honored Minnesota tradition - deer hunting - and killed a nine-point buck. Meet Minnesota's latest generation of outdoorsy veterans - young, embraced by supporters and a medical miracle. Vandenheuvel, 27, was among...

DES MOINES, Iowa A northeast Iowa hunter thought he might have shot a trophy buck when he shot a 14-point deer during Iowa's first shotgun season early this month. 25-year-old Eric Weymiller, of rural Harpers Ferry, started to field dress the animal when _ to his surprise _ he noticed it wasn't a buck at all. He discovered that he was dressing a doe sporting antlers with 14 tines, a big rack even for a buck. Weymiller says he stopped field dressing the doe and called a D-N-R biologist, who confirmed that the animal was a female. More research will...

Rudolph the Homicidal Reindeer HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — A reindeer injured an elderly couple in the wilds of Finnish Lapland, in a rare attack that caused injuries needing hospital treatment, officials said Monday. A male reindeer suddenly appeared from a forest and attacked a man who was hiking Sunday with his partner near Kittila, about 620 miles north of Helsinki. The buck butted the man to the ground and kicked him before turning on the woman who was talking to her son on a mobile phone, Kittila fire chief Jorma Ojala said. The son alerted rescue workers who arrived in...

Hayward - Chai Soua Vang's tearful farewell to his family after his testimony a day earlier proved prophetic Friday, as a jury convicted him of nine charges that guarantee he will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing six hunters and wounding two others. After three hours of deliberations, the jury rejected Vang's claims of self-defense and found the truck driver from St. Paul, Minn., guilty of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted homicide. In addition to the six mandatory life sentences, Vang faces an additional 225 years in prison. His sentencing...