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Twenty years ago,two shots rang out, forever altering lives and lawsFriday, November 14, 2008 @ 11:18PMTwenty years ago today, in a quiet backyard in Hermon, a hunter fired two shots that still reverberate in the minds of Mainers. A young mother of twin girls, Karen Wood, lay dead. Game wardens arrested Bangor hunter Donald Rogerson.

Two Iowa pheasant hunts yield one good takeThursday, November 13, 2008 @ 6:14AMDavid V. Graham | The Flint Journal Brothers Brent (left) and John Graham and Julie Graham, John's wife, hold a few pheasants during their hunt opening weekend in northeast Iowa, just west of the Mississippi River.

Lampe: Hawkeye State pheasant friendlyThursday, November 13, 2008 @ 11:07PMWe had hunted the same hedgerow for years with varying degrees of success. Typically the stumpy trees and grass yielded a pheasant, maybe two.

Hunting looks different as technology advancesFriday, November 14, 2008 @ 2:21AMI was sitting in the main office at Principal Dan Barney's Platteville Elementary School when my dear friend Linda Decker reminded me that not everyone is really interested in knowing how many birds were put in the freezer last year in Iowa or...