Karen Webb of the Sydney, Australia, police said it’s “not very often we get called to lions on the loose” as people on a Roar and Snore stay at the Taronga Zoo got a closer encounter than they bargained for when five African lions briefly escaped because of “an integrity issue” with a fence.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Three Louisiana men are accused of illegally using cast nets to catch 133 game fish 83 crappie, 18 black bass and 32 bream. Two men from Baton Rouge and one from Denham Springs were cited after agents got a complaint about people using the nets in a canal near Ramah in Iberville Parish, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said in a news release Tuesday.
It was a tragic July 4th for one Louisiana teen who was killed while riding on a pontoon boat down the Blind River; the driver is now facing a slew of charges.