A man says he has been raising a duckling in his beard — and he has the photos to prove he isn’t a quack. Reddit user Spongi said he failed to hatch chicken eggs but, somehow, a duck egg that got […]
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Four full time touring professional anglers that compete on the B.A.S.S. Elite Series will be hosting a special class on Lake Amistad. Pro-Bass Class, Session 1, will be held Feb. 8-10. Instructors include Kurt Dove, Mike McClelland, Jeff Kriet and
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Two home invasion suspects are on the run and a third was fatally shot by a South Florida resident who fought back against the armed intruders with an AK-47 Thursday night, police said. The incident happened at a home on
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A new University of Texas-Austin study shows that producing electricity from natural gas saves much more water than producing power from coal, even accounting for water lost in fracking for shale gas. In other words, fracking for natural gas used to produce electricity may
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Ever wonder what goes on in a crab trap or a crab net? Well, this video does a good job showing the activity and you just might be surprised.
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There is an idea for a semiconductor application that has been kicked around for years, but has not yet found its market. It’s the notion of using RFID chips to prevent guns from being used by anyone except their owners.
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The official headcount will not be available until the end of the month, but a good look into the trees along the Mississippi River shoreline gives the distinct impression bald eagles are plentiful this year in the Quad-Cities. The annual
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Coastal Fisheries Division will host seven public scoping meetings this week (Jan. 7-9) in several communities to discuss potential changes to Texas saltwater fishing regulations. At these meetings, TPWD will be scoping several items
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I don’t know about you, but 2013 is one year that I am happy to see rolling to a close. Cancer took a couple of my dearest friends over the last 12 months, two others passed away in their sleep
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A woman died from an apparent dog attack Sunday morning in a southeast Houston neighborhood, police said. Three victims were attacked around 2 a.m. on Glen Prairie near Leonora by at least two female pit bulls, according to authorities. The
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Although no action has been taken at this point, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) officials have the power to temporarily shut down fishing on the coast in relation to freezes to protect fisheries. This power was given to them
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Well, here is a shining advertisement for the US Post Office. A story out of Chicago finds that the Post Office accidentally delivered gifts sent by the President of the United States to the wrong house. It might not be
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On Jan. 2nd, Detroit Police Cheif James Craig said that “good community members who have concealed weapons permits (CCWs) deter crime and save lives.” Craig admitted he did not have this view when he worked as a police officer in
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Criminals in Texas beware: if you threaten someone in their car or office, the citizens of this state where guns are ubiquitous have the right to shoot you dead. Governor Rick Perry’s office said on Tuesday that he had signed
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The Tulsa 2013 Bassmaster Classic made a big splash economically with tax revenue for the city of Tulsa of at least $2 million and a $26 million lift for the local economy. The world championship bass fishing tournament, conducted by
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A 14-foot, 2,300-pound great white shark has been found swimming along Volusia County’s coastline. Nonprofit research group OCEARCH tagged the female shark in August in Cape Cod and have been tracking its journey to central Florida ever since. OCEARCH said
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It’s springtime at Louisiana’s Lake Martin. The air is filled with the chattering of wading birds in the trees that ring the shoreline as they build their nests and prepare to lay eggs. An alligator lies submerged, its body just
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The gunmaker Mossberg has teamed with Duck Commander, the company owned by “Duck Dynasty’s” Robertson clan, to release nine different shotguns, as well as two semiautomatic rifles and a semiautomatic pistol. Mossberg has begun shipping some of the shotguns to
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A white-tailed deer did not survive an encounter with two cheetahs after apparently jumping into their enclosure Friday at the National Zoo, authorities said. It was the most recent of the violent confrontations in the Washington region involving deer, which
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In the year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., gun-control groups spent $14.1 million on TV advertising. According to Kantar Media’s CMAG, that gave such groups a seven to one advantage over gun-rights organizations, which
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