Blind tennis champion Naqi Rizvi plays a shot during a visually impaired tennis training session in London, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
For 2025, the plan is to hold the hunt from Dec. 6 to Dec. 28. In the future, the FWC foresees a bear hunt between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, subject to more studies about the effect of hunting and the population of the animals.Private landowners with 5,000 acres (2,023 hectares) or more could hold what the FWC calls a “bear harvest program” on their property under the proposal. Bears could be hunted at bait feeding stations on private property.
DENVER (AP) — An alligator that appeared in numerous TV shows and films over three decades, most notably the 1996 Adam Sandler comedy “Happy Gilmore,” has died at a gator farm in southern Colorado.Based on his growth rate and tooth loss, Morris the alligator was at least 80 years old when he died, the Colorado Gator Farm said in a Facebook post Sunday. He was nearly 11 feet (3.3 meters) long and weighed 640 pounds (290 kilograms).“He started acting strange about a week ago. He wasn’t lunging at us and wasn’t taking food,” Jay Young, the farm’s owner and operator, said in a
as he tearfully stroked Morris’ head in an animal enclosure.“I know it’s strange to people that we get so attached to an alligator, to all of our animals. ... He had a happy time here, and he died of old age,” he said.
Morris, who was found in the backyard of a Los Angeles home as an illegal pet, started his Hollywood career in 1975 and retired in 2006, when he was sent to the Colorado Gator Farm in the tiny town of Mosca. He appeared in several films, including “Interview with the Vampire,” “Dr. Dolittle 2" and “Blues Brothers 2000.” He also appeared on “Coach,” “Night Court” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” featuring the late wildlife expert Steve Irwin.
But his most famous role was in “Happy Gilmore,” a film about a failed and ill-tempered hockey player who discovers a talent for golf. The title character played by Sandler confronts Morris after hitting a golf ball that ends up in the gator’s mouth.Trump’s comments about Greenland set off a political crisis in Denmark. The prime minister went on
to garner support, saying the continent faced “a more uncertain reality,” while her country moved to strengthen its military presence around Greenland.Greenland’s economy depends on fisheries and other industries as well as on an annual grant of about $600 million from Denmark.
Aka Hansen, an Inuk filmmaker and writer, is suspicious of Trump’s intentions but still thanks him for turning the world’s attention to her homeland.Like many other Greenlanders, she wants her homeland and people to be respected and she doesn’t want to be ruled by another colonial power. But she feels Trump’s rhetoric has increased the momentum for independence from Denmark.