It seemed like someone should round these up in one place. If you know of other animal webcams in Iowa (bird feeders, whatever) please let me know in the comments and I’ll add it to this page. Thanks! — Decorah Bald Eagles Gladys Black Nest Cam on the shores of Lake Red Rock Iowa Barnyard Cam – pigs, chickens, cats [...]

GENEVA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) – A rooster is under quarantine after attacking an 83-year-old woman who was visiting a loved one’s grave at a southwestern Michigan cemetery. MLive.com reports the rooster was one of two at Chambers Cemetery in Van Buren County’s Geneva Township on Thursday that was bothering the Spring Lake woman and her 53-year-old [...]

JEANNIE NUSS, Associated Press

JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Jim Deitz believes he’s creating a Grand Forks landmark, but the downtown apartment house he’s painting one polka dot at a time is making a city planner cringe.

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) – An Idaho man has been charged with assault after authorities say he ordered another man to perform the “moonwalk” at gunpoint. The Coeur d’Alene Press reports 30-year-old John Ernest Cross was charged with the felony Tuesday in 1st District Court and appointed a public defender. Police say they were called to Cross’ [...]

LITCHFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Authorities in northwestern Connecticut say they didn’t find anything after a state trooper and another person reported a large object falling out of the sky in Litchfield.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – An Albuquerque man says he has successfully registered his dog to vote. KOB-TV reports  that the man, who didn’t want to be identified, says he registered his dog Buddy after seeing a voter registration booth on the University of New Mexico’s campus a few weeks ago. The man said he wanted to see [...]

TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Police say a Wisconsin man took the Denny’s restaurant chain slogan “America’s diner is always open” too far, marching into one of the restaurants, announcing he was the new boss and cooking himself dinner. James Summers walked into a Madison Denny’s on Tuesday dressed in a maroon [...]

  DAVID RISING Associated Press BERLIN (AP) – Forget the three little pigs hiding from the big bad wolf. These six little pigs have found a new friend in a maternal French bulldog named Baby. The Lehnitz animal sanctuary outside Berlin said Baby took straight to the wild boar piglets when they were brought in [...]

From  Notice of Hearing and Statement of Charges for Inspirations Salon & Spa and owner Ann Robinson of Cedar Rapids: On July 15, 2010, an investigator inspected respondents’ salon and observed that individual licenses were not posted at the front of the salon. Nor were sanitation rules and the most recent inspection report posted. No biohazard [...]

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) – An Austrian high school principal narrowly escaped legal action after going after potential exam cheaters with a high-tech – but illegal – idea. Gerhard Klampfer reportedly bought and mounted a jamming device strong enough to prevent graduating classes from doing Internet research on their smartphones during final exams last summer. State [...]

PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s has died at age 80.

  STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A moose and her two calves are drawing crowds in a Colorado ski resort as they lick parked vehicles for the salt on them.

  JORDAN ROBERTSON AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A clerical error landed Kathleen Casey on the streets. Out of work two years, her unemployment benefits exhausted, in danger of losing her apartment, Casey applied for a job in the pharmacy of a Boston drugstore. She was offered $11 an hour. All she had [...]

  HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.

  ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Thousands of migratory birds were killed or injured after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot, football fields and other snow-covered areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground in what one state wildlife expert called the worst mass bird crash she’d ever seen.