Wis. Officials Capture Wandering Kangaroo
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DODGEVILLE, Wis. - A kangaroo that went on a walkabout in frigid Wisconsin was captured Wednesday. But where the marsupial came from remained a mystery.  Sheriff's deputies cornered the 150-pound kangaroo in a barn after receiving calls for days from shocked residents who had seen it.
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GRAND CHUTE, Wis. - One robber's list of things to steal included whiskey, a thermometer and lettuce.  Police were called to a grocery store late Thursday after witnesses said a 46-year-old man from Brown Deer threatened employees.
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ROSE CITY, Mich. - Police spent Tuesday morning rounding up a host of four-legged fugitives turned loose after a truck delivering them to northeast Michigan pet stores collided with a tractor.
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A baby has a lucky escape after a dingo wanders into her family's hotel room on Australia's Fraser Island.
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A TEENAGER has escaped from the jaws of a saltwater crocodile while hunting in a remote area of the Northern Territory. The 17-year-old boy was grabbed on the leg and dragged into a billabong by the 2.6m crocodile, before managing to escape.
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PLYMOUTH, Wis. - Firefighters used a harness and a tow truck to pull a donkey from an old well Friday after it fell 15 feet. The rescue happened about an hour and a half after the fire department responded to a 10 a.m. call to the home of Francis and Karee Abbott, Fire Chief Ron Nicolaus said.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 18--BANGOR, Wis. -- A 24-year-old man led police on a chase in a stolen car and on foot Sunday afternoon before being taken into custody.
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Police have arrested four suspected poachers and recovered a baby mountain gorilla that was stolen from its family in the forests of neighboring Congo, a spokesman said Monday.
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Staff at Berlin&#39;s internationally renowned zoo were working to restore public confidence yesterday after a 110kg South American bear escaped from its enclosure and spent more than half an hour frolicking in a children&#39;s playground before being knocked out
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The rapidly growing kangaroo population in Canberra, Australia's capital, has become such a public safety issue that scientists have devised a plan to curb the animals' numbers with a contraceptive pill.
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By Brandy Benedict, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 24--Active nests of an extremely rare bird species have been found in Wisconsin, a first for the state.
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By Associated Press  RED BLUFF -- Wildlife officials discovered the bloody, battered bodies of 10 prized green sturgeon near a diversion dam that likely trapped the large bottom-feeding fish.
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Darwin, Australia - A teenager in Australia&#39;s Northern Territory made a narrow escape from the jaws of a crocodile that dragged him underwater, police said on Monday.
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MADISON, Wis. - A hunter faces two charges after shooting a llama that he mistook for a deer.  John M.
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A 3 1/2-foot alligator has been captured walking along a Long Island roadway. Chief Roy Gross of the Suffolk County SPCA said the reptile was found by two people who were walking alongside a grassy area of Route 25A in Wading River on Sunday afternoon.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - State agents have a beef with two prison officers - they say the pair stole a cow from a prison farm.
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Australia has sent a customs ship to retrieve two activists who were seized by a Japanese whaling vessel, the country's foreign minister said.