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On a sanctuary island off the coast of Mauritius, England’s Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust runs breeding programs for seriously endangered species, including the extremely rare Mauritius kestrel falcon and the equally rare Mauritius pink pigeon. In October the trust announced that one of the falcons had swooped down and eaten one of the pigeons.
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Animal inheritances: In January Anna Morgan of Seattle left an estate valued at $500,000 to Tinker, her 11-year-old Turkish Angora cat; Morgan’s apartment will be maintained and a live-in caretaker hired for Tinker. And in August in Santa Ana, California, the executor of LaVerne Wheeler’s $2.1 million estate announced that Wheeler’s two brothers would receive only $25,000 each, much to their chagrin, but that the Santa Ana Police Department’s K-9 corps would receive $612,000.
Betty Lou Blair, 48, was arrested in October after holding Knoxville, Tennessee, police at bay with a shotgun for more than hour. Over the last 12 years Blair has been arrested 425 times, mostly for behavior induced by alcohol consumption, including disturbing the peace, indecent exposure, and urinating in public.
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