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ATHENS—The Toyota Texas Bass Classic (TTBC) world championship bass tournament will return to Lake Fork May 9—11, 2014. Designed to showcase one of the best trophy bass lakes in the world and the fisheries management that developed it, the TTBC […]

A photo op with a squirrel that went awry has left a teenager flustered but unhurt – and having learned a valuable lesson, according to his mom. Seventeen-year-old Brian Genest, of Auburn, Maine, said Thursday he saw what appeared to

On April 30th Mark Glaze—the head of Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG)—announced he will be stepping down in June. This announcement comes less three weeks since Bloomberg pledged to spend $50 million to challenge the NRA in the

Economist and political commentator John Lott has once again been crunching numbers and in an article published this week for the National Review takes a look at how the Violence Policy Center “cooks the books” in an effort to prove the

A human stash house containing 147 suspected illegal immigrants was busted in Alton, Texas, near the U.S./Mexico border. Daniel Tirado, a spokesman for the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector, told The McAllen Monitor that the immigrants were residents of various South

An entire street collapsed into a massive sinkhole Wednesday, causing terrifying sights and sound that most people have only heard in action movies. A witness just feet from the dramatic landslide caught the moment the earth gave way on video.

Just when you think people can’t get any more ridiculous, along comes a woman who not only can’t fight off an “attack” by a pet duck, but also is not even ashamed of telling the whole world that she got

ALBANY – A statewide ban on the hunting or trapping of free-ranging Eurasian boars has been officially adopted, the state Department of Environmental Conversation Commissioner Joe Martens announced Monday. The boars first arrived in this country a few hundred years

Scientists searching for what they thought to be a shipwreck found something entirely unexpected in the Gulf of Mexico instead. “It looked like a shipwreck,” Thomas Heathman, a Texas A&M-Galveston marine biology student, told KHOU-TV of the image that was first seen

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revealed a new form on April 30 that aids licensed manufacturers and importers that apply for marking variances. “The new ATF Form 3311.4 satisfies the requirements of a marking variance letter application,” the ATF

WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS–Texas State Senator Craig Estes (R-Wichita Falls) helped sound the alarm about the situation facing many of his constituents regarding the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) attempt to take up to 90,000 acres of land along the Red

The National Football League has launched an investigation after a Washington Redskins-themed AR-15 rifle was discovered at a D.C.-area gun show. It’s not about the gun — it’s about the unauthorized use of the Redskins’ logo, an NFL spokesman said.

More than 700,000 people — that’s how many lives are taken each year thanks to a bite from small and seemingly innocuous animal. Bill Gates released this powerful infographic on his blog late last week to highlight a campaign against

WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS–Texas rancher Tommy Henderson lost 140 acres of his land during a lawsuit that turned it over to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 28 years ago. Now, more land owners along the Texas/Oklahoma Red River boundary

When prominent gun control advocate Shannon Watts was asked by a man to take a picture outside of the 2014 NRA convention in Indianapolis, she granted his request. What she clearly didn’t know was who the man really was. Watts’

WASHINGTON –  Not even Supreme Court justices can resist a good fish story. The court said Monday it will hear the case of a Florida fisherman charged with destroying evidence — three small grouper — under a federal law originally

The attorney for a Maryland boy who was suspended after shaping a pastry into a gun says school administrators are trying to “demonize” him in their bid to fight an appeal to have the punishment erased from his school record.

A Minnesota high school has expelled a student for the remainder of the year after school officials discovered a pocket knife in her purse earlier this month. Alyssa Drescher, 17, says that she was subject to a random search ten