Deputy Rescues, Recognizes, Returns Boa
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RAYVILLE, La. - The chief deputy of Richland Parish didn't just capture the 8-foot snake that had stopped highway traffic. He recognized it. That let Chief Deputy Terry Thompson reunite the one-eyed boa constrictor with its owner, who had lost it when he moved to Rayville in March.
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The first bird case has been confirmed by the Pueblo County Health Department. Officials will now survey the area where the bird was found.
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Rescue teams save a whale stuck on the Lincolnshire coast after its companion died.
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By Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 9--Funding for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, particularly covering the department's expenses without relying solely on hunters and fishermen, is a perennial issue. It has come up again in the form of payment for searches and rescues.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The news from Indian River Lagoon was too familiar: another dolphin gravely injured because of human action.But marine scientist Steve McCulloch immediately saw this rescue was unique.
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Wildlife officials in Key Largo are looking into whether the discovery of a detached goat's head might be linked to the sudden death of a newborn dolphin.  Castaway, a deaf dolphin rescued off Vero Beach last year, gave birth to the healthy calf June 11 at the Maritime Mammal Conservancy.
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When a Coney Island lifeguard spied a shark near an upset group of swimmers, he did what he thought was right: He rescued the fish.
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A kidnapped German Shepherd has been returned to its elderly owners in Bogota, days after a police sting operation thwarted payment of a $350,000 ransom.
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A baby who was trapped underwater for nearly five minutes after her mother's SUV was hit and flipped over into a water-filled ditch was revived by a police sergeant.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Dec. 16--The Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge has recognized two of its volunteers for their efforts to help the area's sick, injured or orphaned animals.  The refuge has selected Alisha Blanchard and Chuck Lawson as their volunteers of the year for 2006.
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MONROE, La. - Jerry Wayne Till managed to get away from sheriff's deputies and elude them briefly - until he called them for help after he got lost in the woods.
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DODGEVILLE, Wis. - Iowa County sheriff's deputies have searched in the past for the occasional wandering emu or bobcat - but never a kangaroo, until now.
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OREM, Utah - An unlikely source is to blame for about $12,000 in fire damage to a home. Police speculate Landon Nielsen's pet boa constrictor wrapped itself around a heat lamp inside the cage and pulled the lamp down, which set the cage ablaze.
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FORT GAY, W.Va. - One concerned citizen, several law enforcement officers and two county medical examiners thought a partially decomposed limb discovered at a car wash was a human hand. They were all wrong. It was a bear's paw. "It fooled all of us," Sgt. R.W.
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A volunteer at the Eagle River Nature Center is recovering after being bitten by a brown bear sow. Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials say Sarah Wallmer was bitten on the buttocks on the Crow Pass Trail, about a mile from the nature center.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. - One of two hooded seals that washed up in Martin and Palm Beach counties over the weekend was flown Wednesday to a marine mammal center in New Jersey that is better equipped to care for the cold water animals.
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RESCUE workers will know this morning if their attempts to save whales beached yesterday on Maria Island, off Tasmania&#39;s east coast, were successful.