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Aging NFL stars look to make impact

Step in to the NFL's Last Chance Saloon and look around. There's an impressive array of talent on display this season. LaDainian Tomlinson and Larry Johnson, making perhaps their last dashes in new locales: LT with the Jets, LJ with the Redskins. Wideouts Terrell Owens, Joey Galloway and Antwaan Randle El doing ....  More.

 

'Extinct' plant found in Kohala

Rumors of its demise, it appears, were greatly exaggerated..  More.

 

Last chance for last dance in NFL

Step in to the NFL’s Last Chance Saloon and look around. There’s an impressive array of talent on display this season. LaDainian Tomlinson and Larry Johnson, making perhaps their last dashes in new locales: LT with the Jets, LJ with the Redskins..  More.

 

Religion reporting matters

The state of religion reporting is in peril. The newspaper industry is struggling on 46 percent less revenue than just four years ago, according to USA Today . As newspaper revenues drop it is not the business or sports sections which are being significantly scaled back..  More.

 

Schleicher loses land-use appeal

Chairman William Ravert opened the Aug. 31 meeting of Bowmanstown Borough Council by reading a statement on behalf of the residents and council. The statement was from Judge Roger Nanovic concerning Duane Schleicher's appeal of a land-use zoning denial..  More.

 

Alameda leaders back veterans clinic, columbarium at Alameda Point

City leaders are backing the construction of a health clinic and columbarium for veterans at Alameda Point, despite critics saying the project may be located too close to a colony of endangered California Least Terns..  More.

 

Area opens to gill nets

MIKE SHUTAK MOREHEAD CITY — Carteret County fishermen can once more set gill nets in Core Sound today. The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) has reopened Core Sound to large-mesh gill net fishing under restrictions to protect sea turtles..  More.

 

Freestylin’ D.C.: Long Weekend Edition

Sticking around town this Labor Day weekend? Worry not! There are plenty of free things happening and it’s a great chance to check out museums and other venues usually packed with tourists..  More.

 

Miniature-Golf Tour Across New York’s Boroughs

A tour of miniature-golf courses around Westchester County, Randalls Island, Staten Island, the Bronx and Queens..  More.

 

The Smithsonian's National Zoo Celebrated the Completion of Phase I of Elephant Trails

The Transformation Of the Zoo's Home For its Asian Elephants is Not Merely a Facelift By Karin Korpowski-Gallo Washington, DC - The Smithsonian's National Zoo celebrated the completion of Phase I of Elephant Trails, an innovative and expanded home for Asian elephants, Sept. 2. Phase I has four elements: a new elephant barn, two new outdoor yards, the Elephant Exercise Trek and The Homer and ....  More.

 

Protecting pollinators

Photo courtesy of Steve Buchmann , Darlene Kryza nails up a bee house at Tohono Chul Park..  More.

 

African livelihoods at risk as species threatened: IUCN

AFP - Millions of Africans may lose a key source of livelihoods as a fifth of freshwater African species are threatened with extinction, the updated Red List of endangered species showed Thursday..  More.

 

Philadelphia Zoo's New Female Giraffe Baby is Named

Abigail is the First Giraffe Calf Born at the Philadelphia Zoo in 13 Years By Kirsten Baritz Philadelphia, PA - The votes are in! The Philadelphia Zoo is pleased to announce the name of the Zoo's female giraffe baby born on July 17. The public voted and winning name is Abigail or Abby, as the keepers now call her. Other naming options were Patricia and Shari. Abigail is the first giraffe calf ....  More.

 

Border officials find venomous snakes

A cargo of plucked pigeons bound for British restaurants feature among a range of strange animal finds by the UK Border Agency..  More.

 

Maker of 'The Last Exorcism', Eli Roth, talks budget movies and selling sex

Having made 'The Last Exorcism' for under two million dollars, those behind the new horror flick were stunned at how well it was received in the States..  More.

 

Judge orders government to revise plan to protect Pacific Northwest's northern spotted owls

A judge sends an owl recovery plan back to the drawing board..  More.

 

Fish fans pan dams

BRUNSWICK — Two nonprofit organizations have submitted 60-day notices of their intent to sue the owners of three dams on the lower Androscoggin River for what they characterize in the notice as “illegal ‘take’ of Atlantic salmon protected under the Endangered Species Act.”.  More.

 

Alaska moves to delist eastern Steller sea lions

The state of Alaska has petitioned the federal government to delist the eastern population of Steller sea lions as threatened..  More.

 

Last chance for last dance for NFL veterans

Step in to the NFL's Last Chance Saloon and look around. There's an impressive array of talent on display this season..  More.

 

Harding's Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge fetes 50 years

HARDING TWP. –Over the past 50 years, the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) has grown to almost 8000 acres..  More.

 


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