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Scarf-wearing pig runs amok on highway

Last updated Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 5:25pm

PITTSBURGH -- Motorists have reported a sharp-dressed pig running loose on a highway just outside of Pittsburgh. State troopers also spotted the animal but failed to catch it before it scurried off into the woods.

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Jeri Thomas kisses a pig during an assembly Friday in Kaysville. Students raised enough money for the Koins for Kenya charity that the staff had to kiss the pig.
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Windridge Elementary students win challenge, teacher and principal kiss a pig

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, May 18, 2012 - 9:00pm

KAYSVILLE -- The things teachers do for their students often exceed their duties in the classroom. Take kissing a pig for example.

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Florida hunters use helicopters to target nuisance wild pigs on Florida ranch

Susan Cocking The Miami Herald

Last updated Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 5:00pm

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. -- The helicopter hovered low over a thicket of cabbage palms, its rotor whop-whop-whopping, rattling the fronds and flattening the grass as two men sitting in the passenger seats fore and aft pointed shotguns out the open side.

Suddenly, a wild hog darted out of the brush and began to run across the pasture. One of the hunters aimed and pulled the trigger, knocking the animal down with a load of buckshot. The chopper rose and continued west across the 5,000-acre ranch, seeking more targets.

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