A grizzly bear crosses the road amidst onlookers in Grand Teton National Park in this file photo from May. So far this year, 57 large animals, including bears, have been killed on park roads. (Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent)
Tonya Martin looks over one of eight sheep killed by a wolf at her family's ranch near Two Dot, Mont., in March. A record number of endangered gray wolves have been shot this year by government wildlife agents and ranchers in the Northern Rockies, as the predators' continued attacks on livestock met with an increasingly aggressive response. (Larry Mayer, AP)
Lt. Larry Jordan, left, and Trooper Chris Schell, both of the Wyoming Highway Patrol, investigate a crash of a tanker truck with a pickup from Washington state about 10 miles west of Casper on Wyo. 220 on Thursday morning. The driver of the pickup was killed in the accident. (Ryan Soderlin, Star-Tribune)
Police tape surrounds the home of Robert Ernst on Wednesday afternoon in Sheridan. Robert Ernst, 79, was shot by home intruders early Wednesday morning and died later at Sheridan Memorial Hospital. (AP Photo/Dan Cepeda, Casper Star-Tribune)
Dawn Rock makes her initial appearance Monday in Natrona County Circuit Court. Rock's bond was set at $500,000. Photo by Ryan Soderlin, Star-Tribune
Winslow Friday, a Northern Arapaho tribal member who admitted killing a bald eagle in 2005 for use in a religious ceremony, makes his way into the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals at the Federal Courthouse in Denver on Monday. Photo by Bill Ross, AP.
Wild horses are fed, watered and held at the Bureau of Land Management's wild horse corrals in Rock Springs in this photo from last November. Too many wild horses in holding facilities is forcing the agency to rethink its wild horse roundup policy. Photo by Jeff Gearino, Star-Tribune file photo.
Reputed Ku Klux Klan member Edgar Ray Killen waits in the Neshoba County Courthouse, in Philadelphia, Miss., Friday, Jan. 7, 2005, to be arraigned on murder charges in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis)(AP Photo/Rogelio Solis)
Vice President Dick Cheney, left, Deputy National Security Advisor J. D. Crouch, center, and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, right, watch President Bush, unseen, speak about the death of al-Qaida in Iraq's leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Thursday, June 8, 2006, in the Rose Garden at the White House. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
This undated photo released by the Iraq Government on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 is said to show Ahmed Hussein Dabash Samir al-Batawi, who was arrested by a terrorist combat unit on Monday in Baghdad, according to the Iraqi Prime Minister's office. The Iraqi Government alleged in a statement that terror suspect al-Batawi confessed under questioning that he beheaded hundreds of Iraqis in Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces. (AP Photo/Iraq Government)
Ron D'Amato works to restore power on a telephone pole Monday, July 24, 2006, in St. Louis. Nearly a quarter-million homes and businesses still had no electricity Monday as the city struggled to recover from last week's devastating thunderstorms. (AP Photo/James A. Finley)
A sign outside the tactical operations center for the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, of the U.S. Army at Forward Operating Base Mahmoudiyah, formerly called Forward Operating Base Saint Michael, in Mahmoudiyah Iraq is shown on June 4. The U.S. Army will investigate charges that five American soldiers from this regiment were involved in the killings of four Iraqi relatives, military officials said Friday. Ryan Lenz, AP
Residents assess damage after a severe storm moved through Marmaduke, Ark., Sunday afternoon, April 2, 2006. (AP Photo/Tim Rand)
People stand outside a train coach that was destroyed in a bomb blast in Bombay, India, Tuesday, July 11, 2006. Seven explosions rocked Bombay's commuter rail network during Tuesday evening rush hour, ripping apart train compartments, a railway spokesman said. At least 20 people were killed, police said. (AP Photo / Press Trust of India)
Plumes of smoke rise from Israeli airstrikes in Tyre, southern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006. Israeli bombs slammed into a complex of buildings flattening four multistoried apartment blocks, including the one apartment that had been the target of Saturday's Israeli commando raid, whilst a civil defense ambulance was hit in the rear and slightly damaged with emergency workers who had gone to the bomb site to search for bodies being forced to flee. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
An injured girl is carried into the hospital in the nothern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, Friday June 9, 2006. Israeli gunboats fired artillery shells at targets in the area Friday and one of the shells struck a group of civilians during a family picnic at a Gaza beach, killing nine people, including three children, and wounding more than 25 others, Palestinian medical officials said. Israel has been targeting suspected launch sites used by Palestinian militants to fire rockets.The Israeli army confirmed that naval boats had been firing artillery. It had no further details.(AP photo/Hatem Moussa)
Map locates Maguindanao province in the Philippines, where gunmen hijacked a convoy and killed at least 21 people
Map locates Maguindanao province in the Philippines, where gunmen hijacked a convoy and killed at least 21 people
Map locates Maguindanao province in the Philippines, where gunmen hijacked a convoy and killed at least 21 people
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