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Dear Annie: How should my family handle the discovery of a possible half-sibling?
3+ week, 2+ day ago (154+ words) Dear Annie: My granddaughter, “Melanie,” thinks that she has a half-sister 24 years younger. Melanie believes that her father, long divorced from her mother, was asked by his former unattached girlfriend with whom he remained friendly, to “help” her have a…...
Police rescue more than 400 cats from being eaten in Vietnam during bust of a major animal theft ring
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (589+ words) HANOI, Vietnam — Police in Vietnam rescued more than 400 cats in a major bust of a cat meat crime ring last week in Ho Chi Minh City, and at least 40 of them have been reunited with their owners. However, following the…...
Judge allows state to kill Southwest Alaska bears in bid to protect caribou this spring
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (462+ words) A Wednesday ruling by an Anchorage Superior Court judge clears the way for the state Department of Fish and Game to kill large numbers of bears in Southwest Alaska this month. The Alaska Wildlife Alliance and Center for Biological Diversity…...
25 dead sled dogs found at Mat-Su kennel after months of complaints to borough
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (997+ words) Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a Thursday statement from Mat-Su Borough Manager Mike Brown. On Tuesday, Mike Dolinar found dozens of sled dogs dead at a kennel north of Willow. He and several other dog mushers had…...
Gramma the tortoise, oldest resident of San Diego Zoo, dies at about 141
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (457+ words) LOS ANGELES — After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. Gramma was born in her native habitat…...
Inside the effort to rescue the dogs that Western Alaska storm evacuees had to leave behind
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (1077+ words) BETHEL — Several days after the catastrophic Western Alaska storm forced hundreds of people to evacuate to shelters, another major airlift effort remains ongoing: rescuing dogs left behind in villages ravaged by the storm. Earlier this month, the remnants of Typhoon…...
Volunteers are evacuating pets from a flooded Western Alaska village, 1 plane at a time
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (754+ words) SEATTLE — The special delivery arrived in a plastic storage box after a chartered flight in a bouncy single-propeller plane. Veterinarian Susan Shaffer Sookram snipped the zip ties securing the lid and greeted the cargo: four dogs, one with a gray…...
An Alaska whale expert’s message in a bottle washed up in Scotland years after his death
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (968+ words) In April, Julie and Dug Watkins were walking their dogs on Sandsend Beach, near their home in northern Scotland. As Julie was taking a short swim in the cold water, her husband found something unusual lying on the pebbles: an…...