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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Wildlife experts are trying to solve a mystery that evoked images of the apocalypse: Why did more than 3,000 red-winged blackbirds tumble from the Arkansas sky shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve? Scientists are investigating whether fireworks, poison or bad weather might have forced the birds out of the sky, or if a disoriented bird simply led the flock into the ground. "We have a lot more questions," said Karen Rowe, an ornithologist with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. She said there are do...
Labs seek clues after 3,000 birds die in Arkansas JEANNIE NUSS, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Wildlife experts are trying to solve a mystery that evoked images of the apocalypse: Why did more than 3,000 red-winged blackbirds tumble from the Arkansas sky shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve? Scientists are investigating whether fireworks, poison or bad weather might have forced the birds out of the sky, or if a disoriented bird simply led the flock into the ground. "We have a lot more questions," said Karen R...
JEANNIE NUSS,Associated Press MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) — Searchers have pulled a car out of an Ohio lake where they have been looking for three people who remain missing a day after a 13-year-old girl who disappeared along with them was found bound and gagged in a nearby home. Authorities are looking for 32-year-old Tina Herrmann, her 10-year-old son, Kody, and Herrmann's friend, 41-year-old Stephanie Sprang at a park in Mount Vernon, about 40 miles north of Columbus. The park is near a house where Herrmann's daughter, 1...