GFP Note: Check out the two stories below about feral pigs roaming Dallas, causing damage and creating other problems. Click on the titles to read more.

Family crashes into feral hogs on 130

A North Texas family is lucky to be alive after rolling their vehicle 10 times along SH 130 near Lockhart. The family was traveling along the highway last Friday when they struck a pack of feral hogs.

Weather.com - 4/08/13, AP

LOGAN, Utah – A Utah man is trying to use his recognition as this year's national beekeeper of the year to focus attention on a major threat to the industry: colony collapse disorder.

Darren Cox of Cache County, who has 5,000 hives in Utah, California and Wyoming, received the award from the American Honey Producers Association earlier this year.

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npr by Eyder Peralta  April 08, 2013 1:32 PM

Annette Funicello, who was one of the first child stars to emerge out of The Mickey Mouse Club, has died, .

Funicello was known as "America's Sweetheart." Her acting career started in 1955 when Walt Disney recruited her at 12 years old. She went on to become a successful film star, starring with Frankie Avalon in .

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Weather.com - 4/07/13, AP

KING 5 TV

SEATTLE -- Mud, trees and rocks hit an Amtrak passenger train traveling through Washington state Sunday morning, causing several cars to derail, according to a railway spokesman.

There were no injuries reported in the mudslide that knocked off the dining car and two coach cars, the last three railcars on the train, said Gus Melonas, a spokesman for Burlington Northern Santa Fe, which owns the tracks.

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