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The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday took custody of a Utah environmental crimes fugitive after he underwent facial surgery for injuries he suffered when Florida Keys authorities shot him, state officials said. Larkin Baggett, 53, remained in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital, two days after authorities shot him in the neck and buttocks when he alledgedly pointed an assault rifle at Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputies and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officers who went to an 11th Street trailer in Marathon where he was living to arrest him. Meanwhile, state investigators on Thursday continued to try to determine how...

Authorities shot a federal fugitive from Utah Tuesday morning, saying he pointed an assault rifle at them when they went to a Marathon trailer to arrest him on a tip. Larkin Baggett, 53, was in unknown condition Tuesday night at a Miami hospital where he was flown. No law enforcement officers were injured in the gunfire. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which is investigating the shooting, would not release details about the incident, such as how many bullets hit Baggett, from what kind of gun, and which officers from which agencies shot him. "It sounded like fireworks were going...

Government biologists admitted faking a study monitoring the presence of Canada lynx in southern Washington state. (ABCNEWS.com) Missing Lynx Are Animals More Important Than People? CommentaryBy John Stossel Aug. 2 — "We need water! We need water!" That's the refrain from farmers up in Klamath Falls, Ore. Their fields have dried up, and some farmers have even lost their farms — all because of a fish known as the short-nosed sucker. There's a lake full of water in Klamath Falls, but last year the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ordered the irrigation gates from the lake closed — meaning...