Cancer-stricken Minnesota teen, mother return home on their own

" The weeklong search for Daniel Hauser — the 13-year-old refusing court-ordered chemotherapy — came to an end Monday when Brown County authorities announced he and his mother were back in Minnesota. The...

Mom, teen fighting chemotherapy flee Sleepy Eye home, miss court

NEW ULM, Minn. — "An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for Colleen Hauser, who failed to bring her 13-year-old son, Daniel, to a court hearing regarding whether he should receive chemotherapy against his wishes. ...

American-Indian girls vulnerable to sex trade

Minnesota struggles with identifying where many Native American and other trafficking victims come from, but they have seen victims from South Dakota. Some Native American women, girls, along with women and children from other states, end up at the seaport in Duluth, Minn. A...

Rhododendrons 'should be culled to save UK gardens'

Rhododendrons are loved by the British public but plant experts from the UK National Trust are calling for the plants to be 'culled'. They fear that the rhododendron, which is an alien plant species to Britain, is...

Yesterday Was National Heritage Day: The First National Holiday for Native Am...

"Yesterday, we celebrated Native Americans in our first national holiday: National Heritage Day. National Heritage Day, which was signed into law recently by President Bush, has not been highlighted as it should have been. Shall we make up for this and pay tribute to Native...

Happy "National Shame Day II" 2008 [UPDATED]

(Originally Written for Tuesday, November 25, 2008)Definitely Opinion(ated) As it was in 2007 for Jace, being too worn out to rant, so too it is for me, Intransitivus (who said she quit) this year in 2008....

ALAN KEYES SUING........................

"ALAN KEYES SUING TO PROVE OBAMA'S CITIZENSHIP: President-elect's former Illinois rival files suit in Sacramento. November 20, 2008       *Alan Keyes, a former presidential candidate, has joined members of his American Independent Party in...

'Gunshot' Shrimp Found in British Waters

"Great BritainThe shrimps, which are native to the sub-tropical seas of the Mediterranean, have only been recorded in UK waters a handful of times. They are INCREDIBLY RARE in British waters because the...

Study: U.S. suicides rising; risk high in middle age

Another sad statistic of the Bush administration will be the rise in suicides due to unemployment and foreclosures. During the depression of 1929 the suicide rate spiked and many Wall Street investors and brokers jumped from high rise buildings after the stock market crash....

Glasgow in 'top 10 world cities'

It will certainly surprise more than a few Brits to learn that Glasgow was the only UK city to feature in a new ranking of the top 10 world cities. Glasgow has a reputation for being a very industrial, gritty place, with the local accent being so strong it is sometimes almost...

Grasshoppers are recruited as climate change scouts

The sound of grasshoppers chirping and clicking their legs is going to be used to help track climate change.Grasshoppers and bush crickets are going to be pubically monitored in Britain to record sightings of all...

An Indigenous Perspective on Palin, Oil and Alaska

Today I came across a letter written by an indigenous Alaskan man, Evon Peter, former Chief of the Neetsaii Gwich’in tribe, in which he discusses Governor Sarah Palin's role in managing native and environmental...

Shell-shocked: Carp fisherman catches Mississippi snapping turtle in British ...

A Mississippi snapping turtle caught in a British lake might at first seem just a strange story worth no further comment but the introduction of such alien species into the environment can have disasterous...

Cat Man - the human 'tiger' who enjoys climbing trees and eats raw meat every...

"As obsessions go this has to be one of the weirdest known to man - someone who would voluntarily file his teeth, split his lip and undergo extensive facial surgery - to turn himself into a 'human tiger'.Dennis...

New plans to protect native tigers and elephants in Sumatra

There will be new measures put in place to conserve the numbers of tigers and elephants on the island of Sumatra.The Tesso Nilo National Park will be doubled in size, and is an important area of forest for both...

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