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SALT LAKE CITY – When he realized he'd been separated from his family on a weekend hike in a northern Utah forest, 9-year-old Grayson Wynne's thoughts turned to television. Grayson watches "Man vs. Wild" on the Discovery Channel every week with his brothers and his dad. On the show, host and adventurer Bear Grylls strands himself in the wilderness and then shows viewers how to survive the sticky situations. That's where Grayson says he learned to leave clues behind to help searchers find him...

That's the real flaw in Christopher Dickey's "Deliverance" metaphor: If Cheney is Burt Reynolds, and the rest of America is Jon Voight, and the river is Iraq, who are the hillbillies? Well, presumably (for he doesn't spell it out) they're the dark forces you make yourself vulnerable to when you blunder into somewhere you shouldn't be. When the quartet returns to Atlanta a man short, they may understand how thin the veneer of civilization is, but they don't have to worry that their suburban cul-de-sacs will be overrun and reduced to the same state of nature as the backwoods. That's...

Fox bites 5-year-old boy, attacks grandma 04:53 PM EDT on Thursday, October 14, 2004 By MARK BOONE / 6NEWS 6NEWS Michael Howell, 5, poses with a scarecrow. MINT HILL -- A 5-year-old boy spotted a furry creature in his grandfather's yard in Mint Hill Wednesday and thought it was cat. Michael Howell loves cats, so the kindergartner walked over the pet animal. “I heard the eeriest scream you've ever heard and I knew my grandson was in trouble,” said Larry Howell, grandfather. It turns out the cat was a fox. Michael Howell ran inside the house looking for his grandmother...