U.S. to Poison Prairie Dogs in South Dakota
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Wildlife workers have begun a program to poison thousands of prairie dogs in the grasslands of South Dakota to stop them from moving onto private ranch land parched by drought, a federal official said on Tuesday.
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Eight conservation groups are fighting the US government over a plan to poison thousands of prairie dogs in the grasslands of South Dakota, saying wildlife should not take a backseat to ranching interests.
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Experts have trained unwanted dogs into supersniffers that can detect drugs or bombs. Now they're focusing on a new threat&#151;prostate cancer.
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By CHET BROKAW  PIERRE, S.D. - The U.S. Forest Service has issued a draft report with proposed plans to curtail prairie dogs on national grasslands through poisoning and other means.
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Conservation groups filed suit Wednesday seeking to prevent federal agencies from beginning a program that would poison and shoot black-tailed prairie dogs on federal land in southwestern South Dakota.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The sheriff is saying "I won't" to two jail inmates who want to say "I do." The unidentified couple, in their early 20s and engaged to be married, have been in the Minnehaha County Jail since their arrests on theft and drug charges.
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CHICAGO -- Animal control officials in Chicago say the city has seen an outbreak of a canine distemper virus that can be fatal to dogs.
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By Patrick O'Driscoll  Prairie dogs fight for home on the range as suburbs spread. Rodent relocators try to strike a humane    balance of city and wildlife.    BOULDER, Colo.
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ST. PAUL - A leading state senator said he may push for a ban on a herbicide commonly applied to corn crops across Minnesota, citing research that suggests the chemical causes deformities in frogs and other health hazards.
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Chai Vang of St. Paul, Minn., went hunting this week in Wisconsin, and ended up killing six people. The man reportedly was found occupying a deer stand on private property.
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A Dutch park of natural sand dunes may introduce predators such as wolves or wildcats to control its overpopulation of deer, a local official said Wednesday.
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Two companies are recalling livestock and fish feed ingredients because they contain the same chemical linked to the deaths of cats and dogs from tainted pet food, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday.
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State and federal government officials plan to tour rain-damaged fields in eastern North Dakota and meet with farmers.  Doug Hagel, regional director of the U.S.
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Police plan to meet with Claudia Schiffer to discuss complaints that her dogs are intimidating walkers near her country mansion.
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SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota  - Just minutes before   prison officials had planned to serve death row inmate Elijah   Page his last meal, South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds delayed the   state's first execution in 59 years until at least next July.
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Two Chinese businesses and a U.S. company were indicted on Wednesday for their roles in making and importing a tainted pet food ingredient that federal prosecutors said resulted in the deaths and serious illnesses of many animals in the United States last year, the Associated Press said.
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The League Against Cruel Sports says it will challenge attempts to delay a ban on hunting with dogs.