ST. PAUL, Minn. -- On the outdoors beat, I hear a lot of stories about deer that are alive and become dead, a logical order of things for whitetail and hunter during the deer-hunting season.
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The same cougar that roamed through the Twin Cities in December traveled hundreds of miles in Wisconsin last winter, leaving tracks, scat and photographic evidence across six counties and coming within a few miles of the start of the American Birkebeiner ski race.