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11,350-home So. California development blocked

A Riverside County judge has blocked development of 11,350 homes near a wildlife reserve, saying a county environmental impact study was flawed. The Riverside Press-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/Kk7GFh ) says a judge last week shot down the county's approval of the Villages of Lakeview, which would house an estimated 30,000 people. The ...

Family treated after rabid bat enters W. Pa. home

The Allegheny County Health Department says a family of three in the Pittsburgh suburbs is being treated after a rabid bat was found in their home last week. The bat tested positive for rabies on Monday, so the family is being treated as a precaution. Health department spokesman Guillermo (gee-AYR'-moh) ...

Mosquitoes with West Nile virus found in DuPage

Mosquitoes tested positive for West Nile virus in DuPage County, the first sign of the disease in Illinois this year. The DuPage County Health Department announced the discovery Wednesday. The infected mosquitoes were expected to appear earlier than usual because of warm weather. The infected mosquitoes were in Clarendon Hills, ...

Feds approve operational changes to Arizona dam

The federal government has approved two programs to further test the impact of flooding the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and to help boost the native fish population. Since the 1960s, Glen Canyon Dam near the Arizona-Utah border has blocked 90 percent of sediment from the river from flowing ...

AP top news in Iowa at 4:58 p.m. CDT

Trials set for 3 suspects in Cedar Rapids shooting CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Trials are set for three people suspected in a robbery and shooting at an apartment near Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids. Shantres Johnson, of Cedar Rapids, Raymond Sellers, of Chicago, and Teran Huff, of Des ...

Iowa sports announcer gets clean bill of health

The University of Iowa's football and men's basketball announcer Gary Dolphin says he's gotten a clean bill of health after undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. Dolphin told The Des Moines Register (http://dmreg.co/JI2QnG ) on Wednesday that's he's "ready to go for a great year of Hawkeye football." He's entering his ...

Maine governor signs bills to rebuild deer herd

With hopes of rebuilding a deer herd that has shrunk sharply in parts of Maine, Gov. Paul LePage has signed legislation to implement strategies that include restoring habitats that shelter the animals in the winter and thinning out the population of their main predator, the coyote. One concern that has ...

5,000 elephants killed in Republic of Congo

A wildlife official says that about 5,000 elephants have been killed by poachers over the past five years around the Nouabale Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo. Thomas Breuer, a senior technical official of the Wildlife Conservation Society project in the park, says that authorities must take action ...

Peru agency says cause of dolphin deaths unsolved

The mass die-off of nearly 900 dolphins and porpoises along Peru's coast remains unsolved, Peru's government marine research agency says. Tuesday's final report by the Sea Institute ruled out viral and bacterial infections, human intervention, pesticides or heavy metals as causes for the deaths, which were first noticed on Feb. ...

FILE - In this June 2, 2004 file photo, a Bengal tiger cools off in a small pond of water at Van Vihar National Park in Bhopal. Maharashtra, a western Indian state, on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 declared war on animal poaching by sanctioning its forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks against tigers, elephants and other wildlife. About half of the world's estimated 3,200 tigers are in dozens of Indian reserves set up since the 1970s. (AP Photo/Prakash Hatvalne, File)

Indian state OKs shooting tiger poachers on sight

A state in western India has declared war on animal poaching by allowing forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks on tigers and other wildlife. The government in Maharashtra says injuring or killing suspected poachers will no longer be considered a crime. Forest ...

Feds: Eastern NC wind farm could kill eagles

A preliminary report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a wind farm proposed for eastern North Carolina could kill up to 20 bald eagles each year. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported (http://bit.ly/Ky1JkC ) the estimate is based on only five months of bird counts in Beaufort ...

Exotic animal regulations head to Ohio governor

Legislation that would tighten regulations on owning exotic animals in Ohio was headed Tuesday to the governor for his expected signature, months after authorities were forced to shoot dozens of lions, tigers and other dangerous wildlife released from a farm last fall. The measure would ban new ownership of exotic ...

News briefs from around Tennessee at 3:58 p.m. EDT

3 men plead guilty to abusing horses CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Three men have pleaded guilty in federal court in Chattanooga to abusing horses in violation of the Horse Protection Act. Sixty-year-old Jackie L. McConnell of Collierville, Tenn.; 50-year-old John Mays of Collierville; and 30-year-old Joseph R. Abernathy of Olive ...

Group threatens suit over reptile protection

An environmental group threatened Tuesday to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for not moving quickly enough to protect 25 amphibian and reptile species across the Southeast that it believes are in danger of extinction. Officials at the Minneapolis-based Center for Biological Diversity said they hoped the threat of ...

American Eagle cutting management, support jobs

American Eagle, which operates short-haul flights for American Airlines, says it's cutting about 100 management and support jobs as it pares costs during a bankruptcy reorganization. The regional airline plans to save $7 million a year with the layoffs, which would trim nonunion management and support staff by about 10 ...

Ind. woman whose fetus died in suicide try freed

A Chinese immigrant who tried to kill herself by eating rat poison was free on bond Tuesday after more than a year in an Indianapolis jail on charges that she killed her 33-week-old fetus. Bei Bei Shuai lugged a plastic bag full of her belongings and leaned on her attorney ...

US woman whose fetus died in suicide attempt freed

A Chinese immigrant who tried to kill herself by eating rat poison was free on bond Tuesday after more than a year in jail on charges that she killed her 33-week-old fetus. "I feel very happy," the 35-year-old Bei Bei Shuai said, then broke into tears and hugged her friends. ...

USDA to spend $32 million on wetland restoration

A $32 million set of projects across seven states in the Mississippi River Basin will restore a variety of wetland types, from Iowa to Louisiana. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it will work with state agencies and private groups to embark upon the water quality and wetland restoration ...

No sage grouse season in North Dakota again

North Dakota wildlife officials say the state's sage grouse population appears to have rebounded but not to levels that would warrant the resumption of a hunting season this year. Sage grouse hunting was closed in the state in 2008 for the first time in nearly half a century after a ...

Wildlife officials urge safe boating on holiday

State wildlife officials are urging boaters planning on spending their Memorial Day weekend on the water to be safe and be responsible with alcoholic beverages. Officials say seven people have died in boating incidents in Tennessee so far this year, and they don't want to add to the death toll. ...