Woman, 75, Catches Wild Cat in Trap
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CEDAR CITY, Utah - A 75-year-old woman who felt threatened by a wild cat rented a trap for $55 and caught the animal.
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BARTOW, Fla. - A 31-year-old woman is accused of faking her own abduction to win back an ex-boyfriend. Gretchen Morales was arrested Monday and charged with filing a false police report, child neglect and contributing to the delinquency of a child, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
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A 76-year-old woman was found alive in the mountains Thursday, nearly two weeks after she disappeared while on a hunting trip with her husband, authorities said.
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A 60-year-old woman jumped on to the back of a crocodile yesterday, tackling it to free a man trapped in its jaws. The four-metre (13ft) crocodile grabbed the 34-year-old man as he slept in a tent with his
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An elderly Swedish woman has taken  animal protection too far by sheltering 11 full grown swans in  her small, city center apartment, police said on Thursday.
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WENATCHEE, Wash. - A 57-year-old woman has been arrested for investigation of residential burglary, accused of trying to sneak into her neighbor's house through the doggie door...
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Police in southwestern France  are searching for a big cat, possibly a young tiger, that has  been spotted prowling in a village near the city of Bordeaux,  the village&#39;s mayor said Thursday.
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LONDONDERRY, N.H - A mother kicked, chased and eventually pinned down a rabid fox that bit her 8-year-old daughter while the girl was on a swing set. Pamela Berube, 39, of Hudson, had taken her eldest daughter to a flute lesson at a private home in Londonderry on Thursday.
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A 54-year-old woman in Germany shocked a  would-be thief into submission when she ran screaming and  trapped the man in her car after seeing him rummaging around in  search of plunder, police said Sunday.
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In the largest payout for residential property acquired for the new Dallas Cowboys stadium, the Arlington City Council has agreed to give a 72-year-old woman $2.75 million for her house and 4 acres.
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PHOENIX - A Phoenix woman who kept a mountain lion and other wild animals in her home has been charged with child abuse and endangerment.  Michelle Carole Gierke, 32, admitted keeping a mountain lion, two bobcats and an African serval at her west Phoenix home.
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By JAMES MINTON  The Nature Conservancy of Louisiana recently signed a purchase agreement that will add approximately 850 acres to the Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge in West Feliciana Parish.
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A building society worker's thefts are uncovered when a 92-year-old woman tries to take out cash, a court hears.
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There's a fish-fry Monday in this hamlet of 15 households to celebrate big news: phone service. Gov. Kathleen Blanco plans to call 83-year-old Mink resident Alma Louise Bolton from Baton Rouge to mark the occasion, which finally connects one of the nation's last rural areas without access to regular phone service.
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By Kevin Miller, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 12--Wildlife activists say recent reports of bald eagles and Canada lynx being caught in hunters' traps provide additional ammunition to a lawsuit that aims to ban trapping in parts of Maine inhabited by the federally protected species.
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CHARITY champs helped boost a Shirley school's kitty by almost pounds 750 following a fund-raising event.
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SALEM, Ore. - Was it a case of cat scratch fever? Or was Tinker, a 14-year-old brown tabby with one eye, just getting back in touch with her wildcat ancestors? Whatever the reason, after a sojourn in Oregon, Tinker is headed back to her Riverton, Wyo., home.