Bayou Belle by Birth, Gator Trapper by Choice
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THIBODAUX, La. -- Lynnette Bourg owns two boats: one fiberglass, which she and her husband use for pleasure cruises along the bayou, and one metal, 17 feet long with a pointed hull, which they use for trapping alligators.
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It&#39;s been a long time since Buzz Bissinger moved to Odessa, an epicenter of Texas high school football culture, and spent a season with the Permian Panthers.
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Skeet Reese, a former nightclub dancer, was audacious long before he became 2007 Angler of the Year on the Bassmasters Tour and set himself as the standard in the sport.
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By Leigh Coleman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 17--BILOXI -- Allie Grant of Disney's hit show "The Suite Life of Zach and Cody" celebrated Mardi Gras on Friday with the students of Beauvoir Elementary School.
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Lamar Huntâs fatherâs Texas oil fortune gave him the springboard to become a prime founder of the A.F.L.
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A letter to inmate No. 1352951 and a cell phone bill for $76.63, both found in a soggy New Orleans duplex ruined by Hurricane Katrina, led Louisiana bounty hunter James Martin to Texas.
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When HG Bissinger set out for Odessa, Texas, in the summer of 1988, he intended to tell a Hoosiers-like tale of the Permian High School football program, one of the most storied and decorated in Texas history.
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A rare okapi &#151; something of a cross between a giraffe and a zebra &#151; born at the St. Louis Zoo this summer is doing well despite a shaky relationship with its mother, zoo officials said Wednesday.
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By Lew Freedman, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 17--EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. -- It's a terrible thing when you have a one-track mind, as so many fishermen do. Here I was in northwest Arkansas and all I could think about was hybrid stripers on Beaver Lake.
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By Keri Holt, Destin Log, Fla.  Dec. 16--Wildlife artist Janetta Gee of Fort Walton Beach sees her work as more than portraits of wildlife.
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WASHINGTON -- A newly discovered fossil might be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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ALAPAHA, Ga. - Residents of this small farming town gathered Saturday to celebrate Hogzilla, a 12-foot-long wild pig that was supposedly shot by a hunting guide last summer and quickly grew into a worldwide legend.
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MIAMI - A 12-foot alligator weighing more than 400 pounds and described as among the largest ever caught near downtown Miami was hoisted from a creek Monday by a firetruck.
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AD Foley had no choice, they agree, but it&#39;s a sad day for Gator Nation. By Del Milligan. While two influential Gator football boosters in Polk County expressed sadness at the Monday morning firing of head
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The alligator clearly wasn't from around here. Tennessee wildlife officers discovered a 5-foot alligator Sunday in Watts Bar Lake near Spring City, about 60 miles south of Knoxville.
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A newly discovered fossil could be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  SHELL BEACH, La. - Unde