Officers Wrestle Alligator Out of Hot Tub
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ROYALTON, Ill. - A worried neighbor's call to Animal Control led to a bizarre scene at a southern Illinois home: Four officers wrestling an alligator out of a hot tub, a house filled with animal cages, and the arrest of a man wanted by the military for desertion...
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State Game and Fish officials will help staff members at Carlsbad Caverns National Park remove exotic fish and amphibians from the pond at Rattlesnake Springs.
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Coral Springs Â· A former Coral Springs firefighter who was bound with plastic handcuffs last year during an apparent firehouse hazing incident will receive a $10,000 settlement, city records show.
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MUNCIE, Ind. - Police used a stun gun to subdue a man who started choking a police dog that found him after a chase on foot, authorities said.
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HOLIDAY, Fla. - Police lights and a phone call woke Kevin Jessup at 4 a.m. "Good morning, sir," a deputy told him in the pre-dawn call Wednesday. "I advise you not to step out your front door. There's an alligator right there.
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BUCKLEY, Wash. - Pierce County sheriff's deputies were startled when they entered a house near here during a drug bust and found- an alligator.
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A detainee being held for interrogation was stripped and confronted with an unmuzzled military police dog. He was suspected of having tried to escape and was later bitten by one of the dogs.
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By Jason Lowell, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Sep. 13--KEY WEST -- The Monroe County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday identified the diver found drowned over the weekend, apparently after spearing a giant fish and becoming tangled in a line underwater.
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Four Florida police officers are suspended after tipping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair to search him.
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GULF SHORES, Ala. - Chucky, the 1,000-pound alligator that slipped away from a small coastal zoo amid flooding during Hurricane Ivan, was found in a ditch and returned to zoo care...
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Florida State's players celebrated their game-sealing defensive stop by cutting loose, whooping it up in front of those famously rowdy Cameron Crazies.
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By Elinor J. Brecher, The Miami Herald  Feb. 3--"The hottest ticket in South Beach" had cold water poured all over it by Miami Beach code-compliance officers who shut down a $1,000-a-head Star Island party.
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TENINO, Wash. - It was just a little stun gun fun, but a police officer who demonstrated his Taser by zapping a willing subject in the genitals has drawn a warning from his bosses.  Officer Randy Reynolds ran into trouble when video of the incident last spring was posted on YouTube.com.
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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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A 6 1/2-foot alligator believed to be the elusive "Reggie" 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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By BRIAN SKOLOFF  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - State water and wildlife managers are taking advantage of an unprecedented drought by removing life- choking muck along Lake Okeechobee's shoreline.
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âThe Hottest Stateâ doggedly peels away the gloss to dive into the emotional swamp where two young people get lost in each other.