MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT -- A "Sex and the City" actor and former minor league ballplayer who said he killed his girlfriend's cat in self defense got to walk away Friday with a misdemeanor rap.

Costa Rica created Las Baulas National Park by Law in 1995, acknowledging its responsibility to protect the the last leatherback nesting beach in the Eastern Pacific. Populations of Pacific leatherback sea turtles have crashed by 90 percent over the past

Canada's Olympic mascots are meant to be cute and cuddly, but visit one anti-sealing website and you'll see Quatchi angrily wielding a club and blood dripping from Miga's snarling jaws. The federal government is getting antsy about the beating it's

California has been up to their elbows in Chihuahuas! All over California, Chihuahuas have been abandoned at shelters at an alarming rate. In the last 12 months, animal shelters in the city of Los Angeles have taken in 4,700 Chihuahuas, 1,000

More water will be released along Kootenai River to help white sturgeon

Confessed killer may claim slaying justified on behalf of unborn children

New limits on feline ownership enforced after feud over woman's 15 cats

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Brittany Murphy, the actress who got her start in the sleeper hit "Clueless" and rose to stardom in "8 Mile," has died in Los Angeles. She was 32.

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