Secure your doors and roll up your windows, there’s a black bear bandit and a rare litter of five cubs breaking into cars in the Great Smoky Mountains. A momma bear was caught breaking into a white SUV not once, but twice, as five small cub accomplices roamed around the outside of the vehicle waiting […]
Michael Curtis is a graduate student with Project Dragonfly at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and resides in Millersport. He can be found cleaning up litter at Buckeye Lake in his free time. Buckeye Lake State Park is a beautiful place being plagued by an ugly human-made problem: litter. With the arrival of summer, people […]
Most wolves in the wild only live about three or four years, but one Yellowstone wolf has entered her 11th year – and just brought another litter of pups to the famous National Park. Wolves were first reintroduced to Yellowstone nearly 20 years ago in 1995 and according to the National Parks Service, there are […]
Apr. 11—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) have collaborated to discuss penalties for littering and littering in a “Litter Enforcement Corridor.” PennDOT and PSP held a press event today in Lackawanna County to explain what Litter Enforcement is, why it’s important, and what the penalties are for […]
A domestic dispute in St. Augustine Beach has culminated in the arrest of 23-year-old Eliana Espel Hernandez, who stands accused of Aggravated Domestic Battery, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon (Domestic), and False Imprisonment after allegedly wielding a knife during an argument over cleaning a litter box. >> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE
What does a new trash can and small patch of landscaped area in downtown Bakersfield have in common with half a dozen new recycling containers at Hollister High School in San Benito County, and how do those receptacles highlight an opportunity for Ventura County? Bakersfield and the high school are tentatively slated to receive funding […]
LURAY – The Shenandoah National Park fire expanded to 1,188 acres. The cause of the fire is unknown, and no structures are “immediately threatened” as of Friday, according to a press release from Shenandoah National Park. National Park Service firefighters, Luray Fire Department, and Virginia Department of Forestry are working limit the fire’s spread. “Firefighters […]
This letter is in response to the March 7 letter regarding roadside litter, that asked who will pick it up. My take on it is “If not me, then who?” It is clearly evident that Washington has a roadside litter problem. In a perfect world our tax dollars would go to DOT to finance a […]
Cats are the ultimate low-maintenance pets. They sleep most of the day, clean themselves regularly, and do their business in a box. That aforementioned box, though? That’s where things get a little gross. No one relishes scooping poop every day (though I still think it’s preferable to cleaning up after a dog — I said […]
Feb. 25—Euclid’s Ward 3 came together on Feb. 21 for their first ward meeting under Councilperson Dontea Gresham, who was elected last year to replace Marcus Epps, who ran a failed mayoral campaign instead of seeking reelection to council. The meeting was held at the Rolexxx Ultimate Entertainment Complex, 24900 Euclid Ave., a night club […]
A South Carolina lawmaker’s claim to have proof that a K-12 student asked for a litterbox in order to self-identify as a cat is the same one multiple Republican lawmakers across several states have cited, only to be subsequently debunked. In a medical affairs Senate subcommittee meeting Wednesday, S.C. lawmakers discussed a bill that passed […]
In this house, we don’t hiss and tell. But given that we have two very frisky cats, we’ve been on a perpetual quest to find the best shareable litter box. It’s been a bit of a Goldilocks situation, to tell the truth. The self-cleaning one is too big (and too pricey to refill). The very […]