Chuck the Car-Chasing Turkey Run Over
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WHITTIER, Iowa - A wild turkey who lived life in the fast lane near this eastern Iowa town has died doing what he did best - chasing cars.
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Like the famed ivory-billed woodpecker, my perfect running shoe is hiding. I have been as methodical and patient as those champion bird-watchers in my search. All I have to show for it is the orthopedic version of a fuzzy photograph. Flashes of greatness have flown from my feet in some shoes. But only for brief moments, and maybe they weren't even real....
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COLUMBUS - Sometimes the best way to deal with bad news is to run from it. Strap on your dancing cleats and fly a little. Maurice Clarett left Buckeye Nation backpedaling and scarlet-faced for more than a week, but Saturday came soon enough.
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Most of the turkeys gracing the nation's dinner tables Thursday have been selectively bred for their white meat for so many generations that simply walking can be a problem for many of the big-breasted birds and sex is no longer possible.
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Jeremy Mayfield last night earned a spot in NASCAR&#39;s new Chase for the Championship the old-fashioned way. Down to his last chance and with the pressure on, the former Fairgrounds
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Tycho:  Our Turkey Triloging comes to a close with this, our denouement.  Gabriel is, of course, a caricature of the genuine article.  On the other hand, the grandma and the greasy fireman are only too real.  I sometimes wish that the fireman were less real, particularly when I am sent to the basement on an errand.
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Life & style: Trucks that run on chocolate, floors coated with  cheese. Bibi van der Zee on waste put to good use
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President Bush has spared the life of the nation's Thanksgiving turkey after an election to name the bird which he reports was "neck and neck."
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Politics: 20 November 2004, Saturday. A new TIR-truck incident occurred Saturday morning on the Pernik - Malo Buchino - Goliamo Buchino - Sofia road in Bulgaria.
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A car collided with a tractor-trailer carrying 11,000 pounds of frozen turkeys, killing three people, authorities said Thursday. The victims were in the car, which drove through
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EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - A school bus driver suffered cuts Tuesday when a wild turkey crashed through the windshield of her bus on Interstate 84. The bus was carrying 36 fifth graders and four adults on a field trip from Windham when the bus struck the bird at about 9:35 a.m., state police said.
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By Peter Marteka, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 11--On an October day in 2003, two soldiers were doing routine maintenance on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq when the tire they were inflating with high-pressure nitrogen exploded.
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THE police were in hot pursuit. So he threw the baby girl from his moving car, then took off again. Later, he died when his car hit a road block, the US police said yesterday.
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An inquiry is underway into a head-on crash involving a car which had earlier been pursued by police.
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Bloody end to Bavarian sciurine rampage A battling German septuagenarian brought to a swift and bloody end a crazed squirrel rampage in Passau, Bavaria, by knocking the animal to the ground with his zimmer frame and squashing it, Ananova reports.â¦
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Most of the turkeys gracing the nation&#39;s dinner tables today have been selectively bred for their white meat for so many generations that simply walking can be a problem for many of the big-breasted birds and sex is no longer
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Auto racing NASCAR conceded yesterday that water got into the fuel supply of more than two cars during the race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, apparently leading to a crash that took out several top contenders in the closing laps. Denny Hamlin was leading the Pep Boys Auto 500 with three laps to go when his car stalled while taking the ...