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Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh’s southeastern region are being given food aid after a plague of rats devoured rice crops earlier this year, the United Nations’ food agency said Sunday.The World Food Program said it had begun distribution of...
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Soybean prices tumbled Friday after the dollar continued its rally against the euro, giving investors more reasons to sell commodities that were bought as a hedge...
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A woman accused of planting a dead rat in restaurant food and demanding $500,000 to keep quiet was charged Monday with one felony count of extortion. Debbie R. Miller,...
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Appleton police have arrested a woman for allegedly bringing a rat into an upscale restaurant, claiming it was in her meal and then seeking $500,000 to keep quiet.Sgt....
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Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh’s southeastern region are being given food aid after a plague of rats devoured rice crops earlier this year, the United...
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Police Chief Tom Boggs informed the Sutherlin City Council this week that a pest-removal company has trapped and removed 788 rats from an infested house. An...
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Police Chief Tom Boggs informed the Sutherlin City Council this week that a pest-removal company has trapped and removed 788 rats from an infested house. An...
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The government imposed new restrictions Thursday on some of the biggest-selling rat poisons, citing the danger they pose to children, pets and wildlife.Beginning in...
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Rats from a heavily infested house here are being trapped to be offered for adoption as pets.After being alerted by neighbors, Thurston County animal control officials...
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A food shortage has hit a remote Indian state after an army of rats began devouring rice crops, triggering a famine scare, officials said Friday.The northeastern state...
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A food shortage has hit nearly 70 percent of a remote Indian state’s people after an army of rats began devouring rice crops and triggered a famine scare,...
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The electrocution of a fat rat in an electric station Saturday caused a three-hour power outage in Stockholm’s central train station, halting elevators and...
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More than 200 years ago, rats jumped ship for Rat Island. The muscular Norway rat climbed ashore on the rugged, uninhabited island in far southwestern Alaska in 1780...
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The state Supreme Court has dealt with gay marriage, education funding and abortion rights _ and now, it can add “inflatable rat” to the list.The case is...
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62 of 175 pet rats rescued from a Broadmoor home are available for adoption. The Peninsula Humane...
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