Bear Passes Out After Only 36 Beers
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a campground worker said on Wednesday.
"We noticed a bear sleeping on the common lawn and wondered what was going on until we discovered that there were a lot of beer cans lying around," said Lisa Broxson, a worker at the Baker Lake Resort, 80 miles northeast of Seattle.
The hard-drinking bear, estimated to be about two years old, broke into campers' coolers and, using his claws and teeth to open the cans, swilled down the suds.
It turns out the bear was a bit of a beer sophisticate. He tried a mass-market Busch beer, but switched to Rainier Beer, a local ale, and stuck with it for his drinking binge.
Wildlife agents chased the bear away, but it returned the next day, said Broxson.
They set a trap using as bait some doughnuts, honey and two cans of Rainier Beer. It worked, and the bear was captured for relocation.
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Police Probe 'Miracle Babies' Pastor
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police are investigating whether a pastor who claims miraculous powers to make infertile women pregnant may be involved in child trafficking.
Gilbert Deya, a Kenyan pastor who heads the British-based Gilbert Deya Ministries, claims to exorcise demons from women who are unable to conceive naturally by praying for them.
The women, some of whom are past menopause, are then brought to Kenya where they supposedly give birth and return to London with babies, police said.
"We believe in God, but we do not think God works that way. These are not miracle babies, they belong somewhere," Criminal Investigations Department spokesman Gideon Kibunja said on Friday.
"We are interviewing the people found with the children ... We suspect it is a child smuggling ring."
Police Tuesday discovered 11 children aged between five months and 12 years living in Nairobi with a 56-year-old woman who said she conceived them without having sex with her husband after Deya's wife prayed for her.
The couple are under arrest and the children have been transferred to a home in the Kenyan capital. Kibunja said police were arranging for DNA tests to be carried out on the children, with the results expected next week.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police are investigating whether a pastor who claims miraculous powers to make infertile women pregnant may be involved in child trafficking.
Gilbert Deya, a Kenyan pastor who heads the British-based Gilbert Deya Ministries, claims to exorcise demons from women who are unable to conceive naturally by praying for them.
The women, some of whom are past menopause, are then brought to Kenya where they supposedly give birth and return to London with babies, police said.
"We believe in God, but we do not think God works that way. These are not miracle babies, they belong somewhere," Criminal Investigations Department spokesman Gideon Kibunja said on Friday.
"We are interviewing the people found with the children ... We suspect it is a child smuggling ring."
Police Tuesday discovered 11 children aged between five months and 12 years living in Nairobi with a 56-year-old woman who said she conceived them without having sex with her husband after Deya's wife prayed for her.
The couple are under arrest and the children have been transferred to a home in the Kenyan capital. Kibunja said police were arranging for DNA tests to be carried out on the children, with the results expected next week.
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Look Who Made the 'No Fly' List
WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Kennedy, the archetypal liberal Democrat from Massachusetts, is often called names by Republicans. But until this year he had never been viewed as a threat to U.S. air travel.
Kennedy -- one of the most recognizable figures in American politics -- told a Senate committee hearing on Thursday he had been blocked several times from boarding commercial airline flights because his name was on a "no-fly" list intended to exclude potential terrorists.
The Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) heard Kennedy was eventually allowed on the flights, but it took numerous calls to the Department of Homeland Security to clear up the mistake and get his name off the list.
Noting it had taken him weeks to resolve the matter, Kennedy wondered aloud how difficult it might be for ordinary Americans to have their names removed if they were also mistakenly placed on the watch list.
A Kennedy spokesman said the whole thing had resulted from a simple error and had not been politically motivated.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge personally called Kennedy "to make sure that the situation was remedied," said a spokeswoman for Ridge's department.
WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Kennedy, the archetypal liberal Democrat from Massachusetts, is often called names by Republicans. But until this year he had never been viewed as a threat to U.S. air travel.
Kennedy -- one of the most recognizable figures in American politics -- told a Senate committee hearing on Thursday he had been blocked several times from boarding commercial airline flights because his name was on a "no-fly" list intended to exclude potential terrorists.
The Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) heard Kennedy was eventually allowed on the flights, but it took numerous calls to the Department of Homeland Security to clear up the mistake and get his name off the list.
Noting it had taken him weeks to resolve the matter, Kennedy wondered aloud how difficult it might be for ordinary Americans to have their names removed if they were also mistakenly placed on the watch list.
A Kennedy spokesman said the whole thing had resulted from a simple error and had not been politically motivated.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge personally called Kennedy "to make sure that the situation was remedied," said a spokeswoman for Ridge's department.