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A sleeping student on a Powhatan County, Virginia, school bus got a frightening surprise on April Fools Day. Surveillance video shows a deer flying through the vehicle’s windshield and landing briefly on the student just after 6 a.m. Thursday. After landing on the student seated in the front row, who appears in video footage to be asleep and crouching down, the deer frantically pranced around before bounding down the bus steps and out the open door of the stopped vehicle about 10 seconds later. The school system said no one was hurt in the accident. The school bus driver said...

Yesterday morning I was traveling at 45 mph down a semi rural two-lane highway on my way to a doctor's appointment when suddenly a large buck with a huge rack flashed in front of me. An oncoming SUV hit the deer on the rump tossing it off the highway. I was driving subcompact and had I approached a split-second sooner the buck and I would've undoubtedly stopped there -- permanently. Be careful out there.

A freezer conked out and a lot of deer inside is on the cusp of going bad.

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — An environmental specialist for a Central City engineering firm was attacked by a buck while she was studying wetlands at a game preserve in Stonycreek Township Wednesday. Jamie Detweiler, 35, of Ligonier, was flown by medical helicopter to Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, where her condition was not immediately available. Detweiler was doing wetlands dilineation at the preserve for Musser Engineering when the buck suddenly charged her, goring her in the leg, said Roger Harmon, owner of 6 Springs Hunts on Lambertsville Road in the shadows of the Flight 93 temporary memorial. “This is the first time...

Whispers started with the first few gunshots. Neighborhood rumors had it that a cotton farmer who leases land from the Chickasaw Basin Authority near the Wolf River was shooting deer on the property. So when residents discovered nearly 40 of the animals had been killed and left to rot in the surrounding woods, they reacted with horror. "I don't like to see (deer) slaughtered, and that's what happened down there in these cotton fields," said Brenda Flanagan, a nearby resident. "To me it's inhumane. ... What's gone is gone, and I would hate to see that ever happen again." Angry...

"Neither Denmark nor Norway has a prohibition on sex with animals, as long as the animals do not suffer. On the Internet Danish animal owners advertise openly that they offer sex with animals, without intervention from police or other authorities, Danish newspaper 24timer reports. In correspondence with the animal owners, the newspaper was told that the animals involved have many years of experience and that the animals themselves wanted sex. The cost to the client varied from DKK 500-1,000 (USD 85-170). ... According to the 24timer report, Germans, Dutchmen, Swedes and Norwegians visit the Danish bordellos, and a web site...

Researchers at the University of Missouri have mounted wireless video cameras on white-tailed deer to get a better idea of how the animals see their world and what's behind their behavior. The battery-run cameras with miniature transmitters were placed between the antlers of two bucks and round the neck of one doe. The images are sent electronically to VHS tape for recording. The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant for the work...

DNR Officer Kills Injured Deer ALMA, Mich. -- A deer smashed through two glass panes and entered a hospital, stopping at a first-floor nurse's station before being tied up and removed from the building. The animal, cut and bloodied, burst into Gratiot Medical Center about noon Monday, said David Koutz, the hospital's director of facilities. A nurse blocked the deer's path into a hallway leading to patient rooms, while other staffers closed patient doors. Staffers covered the deer's head with a blanket, calming it enough for them to tie its legs with ropes, place it on a cart and get...

RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. - A man died after being attacked by a 6-foot-tall deer that he encountered in his back yard, officials said. Ron Dudek stumbled onto the deer Sept. 25 when he went outside to pick tomatoes. The buck struck him in the face, ripping a hole in his cheek and ramming an antler into his mouth. Dudek, the 73-year-old president of an electric company, died Monday of his injuries. The Medical Examiners Office said an autopsy revealed that the deer's blow caused a blood clot that went to his lungs and killed him. "This was a startled...

ORINDA - Residents of a woodsy neighborhood are rattled by a rogue male deer that has gored one dog to death, wounded another and confronted two others --_ all in their yards. Authorities have called in a federal hunter to try to kill the buck, and Orinda police are keeping an eye out for the black-tail deer with big antlers. The behavior is unusual, animal experts say. While male deer can be aggressive at this time of year during the rutting season, it's highly unusual one deer to be involved in a series of confrontations with dogs, said John Krause,...

If it's spring in Mt. Lebanon, it must be time for the deer to devour Melissa Evans' tulips. "I've never seen them in bloom because deer gobble them up before they are much more than a bud," said Evans, who woke up recently to find the posies at her Seminole Drive home munched to nothing for the third spring in a row.

(North Vernon) -- You may think about bright eyes and bushy tails or even about Bambi. But a North Vernon man spent three hours in the emergency room after a 13-point-buck ran rampant. You can tell an experienced hunter lives at Jim Mick’s house where the garage wall is lined with antlers and bones. Mick has been hunting for about 45 years, but his most recent experience out in the woods was almost his last. He had his eye out for deer, but apparently one had its eye on him. "It just came out of a blind spot and hit...