The Daily Populous

By now the buffalo that once covered all the Great Plains were hewn into two giant herds––one in the north, and one in the south.

Still, the brown herds could overwhelm, and when Sheridan asked a trader how many buffalo he thought lived in the southern herd, the man said 10 billion.

But if the Army planned to slaughter all buffalo and starve the tribes into submission, it’d take more time and men than Sheridan had. »

CLINTON COUNTY, Pa. (WBRE) - Suspected bath salts, green lasers, and fireflies -- State Police say they're all part of this story that put two people in jail.

Troopers say 30-year-old Jesse Shields and 22-year-old Katherine McCloskey were high on suspected bath salts during a bizarre chain of events early Saturday morning.

According to investigators, the pair from Clinton County had a "bad trip" and thought that fireflies were green lasers coming from aliens who were after them. »

As NASA prepares for an Aug. 4 launch, it has unveiled a "cutting-edge heat shield", installed on June 27, that will keep the spacecraft from being burnt to a crisp.

The probe's mission will take it within 4 million miles of the sun, a region of space never before visited by a human-made spacecraft.

For comparison's sake, the closest that Mercury ever gets to the sun is approximately 29 million miles. »

A woman from Weld County in Colorado inadvertently exposed 21 people to rabies after she rescued a baby raccoon she found in her property.

Apparently, a woman found and rescued an abandoned baby raccoon in her property and decided to take it to her home.

Unfortunately, the baby raccoon eventually tested positive for rabies, but not before being exposed to 21 people in total. »