A ranch in North Texas is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for the killing of its sacred white buffalo.
The rare white buffalo, a male calf named Lightning Medicine Cloud, was found slaughtered and skinned on April 30 on Lakota Ranch near Greenville, Texas.
The calf was just shy of its first birthday. The calf’s mother also died the following day.
The ranch’s owner, Arby Little Soldier, said he thinks the mother was poisoned. Little Soldier, the great-great-great grandson of Sitting Bull, was away on a trip when the white buffalo was killed.
“Someone who probably knew we were out of town killed him and stripped the meat,” Little Soldier told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “I think it was a professional hit on the mom.”
According to the paper, the ranch and its supporters are offering $45,000 for information leading to the killer. According to the ranch’s website, Native Americans “see the white buffalo calf as the sign to begin life’s sacred hoop.”
And they are very rare. According to the National Bison Association, just one out of every 10 million buffalo born are white.
The Texas Rangers, the Bureau of Indians Affairs and the Hunt County Sheriff’s Department have all pledged their resources. They’ve launched a joint investigation and have vowed to do whatever they can.
Since the incident happened last week, the ranch has been inundated with sympathy and well-wishes from all over the world.
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A town councillor in England, Simon Parkes, has claimed his mother is a green alien and extra-terrestrials abducted him as a child.
He believes that a 2.7m (9ft) lifeform stood next to his cot when he was a baby and ‘two green stick things’ appeared.
‘I thought “they’re not mummy’s hands, mummy’s are pink,’ Mr Parkes said.
‘I was looking straight into its face. It enters my mind through my eyes and it sends a message down my optic nerve into my brain, saying “I am your real mother, I am your more important mother”.’
The extraterrestrial is said to have had huge eyes and tiny nostrils.
Mr Parkes, 52, said another alien encounter occurred when he was three and had chicken pox.
A 2.4m (8ft) ‘doctor’ dressed as a waiter offered to help after Mr Parkes’s mother left him at home, it is claimed.
Three years later his ‘real mother’ took him on board an alien craft.
‘The reason why extraterrestrials are interested in me is not because of my physical body but what’s inside – my soul,’ he said.
Mr Parkes, a Labour member elected to Whitby town council in North Yorkshire last month, says his beliefs have not interfered with his work.
‘For many of the people who don’t experience it, it’s very hard to accept.
‘We are taught to only see and believe what we can touch, but it’s acceptable to believe in religion,’ he said.
‘I’m more interested in fixing someone’s roof or potholes.’
He added: ‘I get more common sense out of the aliens than out of Scarborough town hall. The aliens are far more aware of stuff.’
Terry Jennison, a fellow councillor in Whitby and former mayor of the town, said: ‘I am completely in the dark about this.’
A 10-year-old Maine boy was recognized on Tuesday for his heroic efforts in helping to save his mother’s life.
John Kearney was awarded the Meritorious Action Medal at the Boy Scout’s Governor’s Luncheon.
Kearney was hiking along the Maine-New Hampshire border with parents when his mother tripped, fell 30 feet, hit her head on a rock and had a seizure.
The boy’s father ran 2 miles to get help while John applied pressure to the wound and comforted his mother.
Two hours later, help arrived and April Kearney was air lifted to a hospital.
“I feel proud of myself,” says the young Kearney, and “they’re proud of me for doing this, especially my mom.”
John and his parents say he used the skills he learned in the Cub Scouts to help out his Mom that day.
A Mexican woman, Maria Jose Cristerna, turned herself into a vampire look-a-like after suffering years of domestic violence.
She is now helping other victims of domestic violence.
Mother-of-four Cristerna, who is known as Vampire Woman, is a 36-year-old former lawyer from a Catholic family background.
98% of her body is covered with tattoos and she has had fangs dentally implanted into her mouth. She also had titanium horns surgically placed beneath the skin on her head.
She says she became interested in expressing herself through piercings and tattoos as a way of recovering from the trauma of abuse and now uses her appearance to help raise awareness and help other victims.
“At first people were interested in my looks because it was cool, because it attracts attention and because it’s something different,” she said.
“But I see it as something good among all the bad, because I’m giving a message. I won’t be able to change the thinking of the entire world, but I’m always there to help the people that need it.”
While Samantha Garcia was at a friend’s house to watch the Daytona 500 on Sunday afternoon, she heard a child crying loudly outside.
She stepped outside to find out what was happening in front of the house in southwest Wichita and saw a 2-year-old boy, crying, frightened and bleeding heavily from his nose and lip.
“He was scared,” Garcia said. “I’ve never seen a child’s lip that swollen.”
“As soon as I came up, he put his arms up and climbed right up into my arms, no problem,” Garcia said.
He had road rash on his arm and two deep cuts on his face, she said.
Wichita police on Monday said that the boy was riding in the back seat of his mother’s car when he unbuckled his seat belt, opened the back door and fell out.
His 22-year-old mother didn’t notice he was gone until she arrived at her home more than 1 1/2 miles away.
She then retraced her steps, and found him at the house on Rita.
The mother claimed she panicked when she got home and took out the child safety seat, and wanted to leave with her child immediately, Garcia said.
“We wouldn’t let her have him until we knew what happened,” she said. “The police were on their way.”
No one apparently saw the child fall from the moving car.
“That’s heartbreaking,” Garcia said. “This kid had run for lord knows how long. Two years old and running down the street, bleeding.”
He was taken to Via Christi Hospital on St. Francis for treatment and evaluation, Lt. Doug Nolte said. He was admitted for observation and placed in protective custody.
The mother has been questioned but not arrested, Nolte said. It is against state law to have a young child riding in a car without the use of an age- and size-appropriate safety seat, he said.
“He’s a bright little boy,” Garcia said. “He sat on my lap and played on the iPhone” until the police arrived.
“I’m trying to wrap my head around it all…imagine how scared this kid was.”
An obituary printed in a Florida newspaper was spread across the Internet as it revealed the bitterness between the deceased’s son and her other children.
Josie Anello died at the age of 93 on Feb. 11, and Angelo “A.J.” Anello, 63, wrote the obituary for his mother. He used the opportunity to take swipes at his siblings.
“She is survived by her Son, ‘A.J.’, who loved and cared for her; Daughter ‘Ninfa,’ who betrayed her trust, and Son ‘Peter,’ who broke her heart,” reads the third line of the obituary, which was printed in the Tampa Tribune.
Ninfa Simpson, 65, who had an obituary run the following day without the inflammatory language, said her brother falsely accused her of taking vacations using her mother’s Social Security checks.
“My brother is not telling the truth. He’s having his moment of revenge,” she said.
Simpson said Anello drained their mother’s savings and maxed out her credit cards.
“They are so riddled with guilt, what they are doing is pointing fingers at me,” Anello said.
The siblings agreed their older brother, Peter Anello, cut himself off from the family 25 years ago. The Times said he could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
