It's not hunters....and it's not the big guns on Fort Sill. So what is the mysterious popping sound people in the Park Lane and Sullivan Village neighborhoods are hearing in East Lawton? 7NEWS found out It's a goose gun. It's designed to scare off flocks of thousands of geese that tear up wheat fields.

7 Jan 2009

The books of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India’s fourth-largest outsourcer, are a tissue of lies – and have been for years – made up out of whole cloth by the company’s founder and chairman, Ramalinga Raju, and his younger brother, its managing director, Rama Raju. Unable to keep the pretense going any longer, Raju resigned Wednesday and sent a four-and-a-half-page confession to the Securities ...

7 Jan 2009

Millions of birds, representing hundreds of species, have arrived to the Central Valley from chilly Canada in search of warmth, food and shelter. To celebrate their presence, Chico-based naturalists are holding the huge Snow Goose Festival on January 22 through 26. Smaller gatherings — of birds and birders — are planned for Davis, Vallejo and other informal nature spots around Northern California.

7 Jan 2009

BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian coffee growers are brewing up a lawsuit over a U.S. comic strip joking that violence is so rampant there, maybe "there's a little bit of Juan Valdez in every can" of the country's java.

7 Jan 2009

AMESBURY and mdash; After Clare Dombrowski became the children's librarian at Amesbury Public Library, she began to see a small hole in the programming. While toddler story hours are offered weekly, Babytimes for newborns to 23 months were only offered biweekly. Babytimes usually draws a crowd of 15 to 25 children, making the class one of the library's busiest.

7 Jan 2009

BRIGHTON TWP. - Despite initial controversy, a goose hunt in Bradys Run Park concluded Saturday with no problems. Tom King, Beaver County's recreation director, said hunters had killed 26 geese over six days leading into the final day. King said he didn't know how many geese were taken Saturday.

6 Jan 2009