Antibiotics Used by the Ton in Animal Feed Every Year

According to a report released yesterday, 25.6 million pounds of antibiotics are mixed with farm animals’ food every year -- almost all of it concentrated in just 23 states, mainly in the Mid-Atlantic and the South. Nearly 70 percent of all the antibiotics used in the US...

The deserters: Awol crisis hits the US forces

JE McNeil, who heads the Centre for Conscience and War in Washington DC, a Christian group whose members also staff the GI Rights Hotline, said many troops she spoke with had been lied to by recruiters. "I had an 18-year-old who was told he did not have to serve in...

Wisconsin Considers Cat Hunting

<a href=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/killing_wild_cats target="_blank"> AP (via Yahoo!) reports</a> that the state's Conservation Congress, which makes hunting recommendations to the legislature, is polling...

Snowstorm closes roads, schools across Midwest and Canadian Prairies

According to the CBC, "A spring snowstorm has school divisions cancelling classes and highways officials closing roads around western Manitoba." In Alberta blizzard conditions are developing. Meanwhile in the MidWest USA Today reports that, "A snowstorm on the last day of...

Emergency Crews Working On Downtown Fire (WISC Channel3000.com via Yahoo! News)

An underground fire underneath the street at State and Henry streets Monday afternoon kept emergency, fire and Madison Gas & Electric crews working into the night.