This will be the last news roundup of the year. We’ll likely have a post or two early next week and then go dark for the holidays, returning in early January. We appreciate your readership this year, as well as your feedback, your topic suggestions, and all the other ways that you participate in the blog community. However you may celebrate the season, we wish you a happy and restful break. Read on for a selection of the week’s news. Men charged with killing 3,600 eagles. Two men were charged in federal court this week with unlawfully killing 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, and selling eagle parts on the black market. The AP has the story here. Most of the alleged activity took place on a Native American reservation in Montana. One of the men reportedly texted a potential buyer to brag that he was on a “killing spree.” The defendants “face 13 counts of unlawful trafficking of bald and golden eagles and one count each of conspiracy and violating wildlife trafficking laws.” Mom whose 6-year-old shot his teacher to be sentenced for child neglect. Remember the little Virginia boy who shot his teacher? The AP reports here that his mother, Deja Taylor, will be sentenced today for felony child neglect. The crime carries a maximum term of five years in prison, but the prosecution has agreed to recommend a sentence of six months. According to the article, the child “told authorities he got his mother’s 9mm handgun by [...]
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