Killer stingrays hit Brit beaches

" A ray that kills its prey with a giant electric shock has been found off the coast of Britain. The marbled stingray, which generates a power surge so hard it is like being plugged into the mains, ...

Florida Woman Killed In Freak StingRay Incident

Florida Woman Killed In Freak Sting Ray Incident Is Nature lashing out at humans due to our poor stewardship of the environment?  I actually heard this argument recently,  the attacks from the animals...

Canada Requests India to Release of Saul Itzhayek from Bihar Jail

In this atmosphere of Mercy diplomacy prevails in India theCanadian former justice Minister Irwin Cotler has used this opportunity to argue Indian Government to release a Candian Business man lodged in Bihar’s Motihari jail for past six months on visa violation charges""

British Columbia: Stoner enters Police Roadblock, Joint dangling from mouth.

Certainly speaks volumes of British Columbia's Drug mentality which seems straight out of a Cheech and Chong Movie, when a stoner, joint hanging between his lips, enters a Police Roadblock.  "Man rolls up to...

Crikey! - ‘Steve Irwin’ ship to confront Japanese whalers

"A ship belonging to the anti-whaling Sea Shepherd group has been renamed in memory of wildlife conservationist Steve Irwin.  The ship, previously called the Robert Hunter, is about to sail from Melbourne to the Antarctic, where it will try to stop Japanese whalers from...

Australia`s `Crocodile Hunter` becomes a professor

"The "Crocodile Hunter" had been named an adjunct professor at the University of Queensland shortly before his death in 2006, said Craig Franklin, a lecturer at the campus and a friend of Irwin. However Irwin was killed by a stingray while filming on Australia's Great Barrier...

The late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is being honoured with a new wildlife r...

"Steve Honoured With Wildlife Reserve Updated: 09:27, Monday July 23, 2007 The late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is being honoured with a new wildlife reserve in the Australian outback. A 333,000-acre chunk of land, near Weipa in the far north of Irwin's home state of...

Australia to name park after Steve Irwin

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSteve Irwin, famed Animal Environmentalist and "Crocodile pisser offer" killed in a stingray attack last year is having a 333,385 acre Wildlife preserve named in his...

Crocodile Hunter's death caught on video (AP)

" CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin was videotaped pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest in his last moments of life, officials said Tuesday, as tributes poured in for TV's "Crocodile Hunter." Police said...

The Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 (HR 2102) is scheduled for a House J...

"Currently, SPJ President Christine Tatum, Past President Irwin Gratz and Executive Director Terry Harper are visiting legislators on Capitol Hill to rally support for HR 2102. The Shield Law bill has bipartisan support in the House and Senate. Sponsors include Reps. Mike...

Is there any truth to 'the enemy would follow us here?'

"Is there any truth to 'the enemy would follow us here?' By William Douglas McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - It’s become President Bush’s mantra, his main explanation for why he won’t withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq anytime soon. In speech after speech, in statement...

Croc hunter's daughter makes TV debut

Culled From Yahoo News Bindi Irwin, the 8-year-old daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, followed in her dad's footsteps Thursday, using her American television debut to talk about animals. The...

Last Croc Hunter Show Won't Have Death

"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's final program is complete, but the show about the sea's deadliest creatures will not include footage from the day he was killed by a stingray, his manager said Saturday.Irwin died Sept. 4, minutes after a poisonous barb from a stingray's...

Irwin death tape handed to family and copies destroyed

Australian authorities want to make sure the public never sees the Crocodile Hunter's final moments. A coroner in Australia says the video of Steve Irwin's fatal encounter with a stingray has been handed to his family and all the copies of the tape have been destroyed....

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