'Reggie' the Alligator Believed Captured
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS LOS ANGELES - A 6 1/2-foot alligator believed to be the elusive &quot;Reggie&quot; who lurked in a park lake for two years was captured Thursday in a wrestling match with a reptile expert and rangers.
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LUDINGTON, Mich. - A man who attempted to kill a 4-foot alligator and abandoned it near a city park was sentenced Tuesday to 30 hours of community service and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
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PLANOTexas - The traps are out as a Plano family waits to see if a bobcat&#39;s kittens take the bait. The mother bobcat was captured Wednesday, and one of three kittens was captured Friday morning.
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CAIRNS, Australia A doctor says a pair of Australian campers are &quot;pretty lucky&quot; after tangling with a big crocodile. Authorities say the 14-foot croc grabbed a man as he slept in a tent at a campsite in Queensland.
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By T.J. Pignataro  Buffalo's first suspected mobile methamphetamine laboratory was seized from a South Buffalo house late Monday night, along with a handgun, large sum of cash and a hydroponic marijuana-growing operation, Buffalo narcotics officials said.
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Seven rare albino alligators disappeared from a Brazilian university zoo and authorities suspect animal smugglers stole them, officials said Friday.
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SHREVEPORT, La. - Two years after he was stolen, a talking cockatoo is back home with his owner. It was "I love you, Corey" that brought him back. Corey and four small dogs that also belonged to dog breeder Diane Bagley all were stolen from her yard in June 2005.
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BOGOTA  - One of the 12 drug dealers most sought by the United States was captured yesterday, police said. Dagoberto Florez Rios, for whose capture the United States had offered US$5 million, was arrested
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NASHVILLE, Dec. 2 -- A convicted murderer who escaped from a work-release program 33 years ago was captured in Alabama, where he had been working in construction using his real name, U.S. marshals announced Saturday.
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SHREVEPORT, La. - Add this to the many uses of duct tape. Ark-La-Tex Narcotics Task Force agents and Caddo Parish sheriff's deputies stopped a man at a Greyhound terminal Friday after they said he was acting suspiciously, sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Chadwick said.
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The victim was identified as Eugene Armstrong, an American, who was seized along with another American and a Briton.
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GRASSY KEY, Florida  - Deep in the heart of the Florida Keys, wildlife officials are laying bait laced with poison to try to wipe out a colony of enormous African rats that could threaten crops and other animals.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - What do you do when a 1,250-pound crocodile turns into a diva? Take him away from his audience. Officials at the St. Augustine Farm and Zoological Park said Maximo has been refusing for about a month to cooperate for his daily feedings of guinea pigs and quail.
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KIEV, Ukraine - An animal trainer who brought a crocodile to the beach to drum up interest in a circus got some unwelcome publicity when it broke free and made off into the Azov Sea.
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The 12-foot, 1,000 pound alligator is the focus of an intensive hunting expedition after Hurricane Ivan&#39;s fury sent him swimming from his confines at the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo.
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PITTSFIELD, Maine - A drug suspect who eluded capture in Maine and Colorado was captured Monday when he hopped into a car, cranked the engine and went nowhere because the wheels were lifted off the ground for repairs.    Jason Belmer, who is accused of burying cocaine in his grandmother's yard, was caught trying to steal the car, Police Chief Steven Emery said...
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NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - A man retrieving balls from a golf course lake was attacked by a 7-foot alligator Wednesday morning, suffering minor injuries to his foot, authorities said. Vernon Messier, who was wearing a diver's wet suit, was standing in waist-deep water on the No.