Pa. rifle deer season opens Monday (Centre Daily Times) Pennsylvania's two-week rifle deer season gets under way Monday when nearly one million hunters will go in search of deer to shoot. The season runs through Dec. 8. [News Source]

Taxidermists busy even before deer season begins (The Herald-Mail) WAYNESBORO, PA. Pennsylvania’s two-week deer season begins today and could result in the shooting of more than a quarter-million deer. [News Source]

Rifle Deer Season Opens Today (KDKA Pittsburgh) Pennsylvania's two-week rifle deer season got off to a soggy start today when nearly one million hunters will go in search of deer to shoot. [News Source]

Pa. rifle deer season opens Monday (Centre Daily Times) Pennsylvania's two-week rifle deer season gets under way Monday when nearly one million hunters will go in search of deer to shoot. The season runs through Dec. 8. [News Source]

Breaking old ground in Grayson County. When Grayson County ranch owner Charlotte Hanes isn't mending fences or checking cattle, she is working with a group of farmers and landowners who want to improve economic and environmental conditions in Grayson County and beyond. [News Source]

Prion discovery surprises. An experiment finds soil-bound prions 700 times more infectious than prions alone. [News Source]

Carbo loading to boost research (The New Zealand Herald) As a subject, the extraction of bovine bile is not your average conversation-starter, but New Zealand Pharmaceuticals general manager Andy Lewis is not one to mince words. That's what his company does and it does it well. [News Source]

Montana steps up regulation of cattle from Canada (Casper Star-Tribune) HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The Montana Department of Livestock says concerns about disease led the agency to impose a new rule on cattle from Canada if they are not merely passing through the state. [News Source]

Prion Fingerprints Detected With Glowing Molecule (Medical News Today) An effective and sensitive new method for detecting and characterizing prions, the infectious compounds behind diseases like mad cow disease, is now being launched by researchers at Linkoping University in Sweden, among other institutions. Mad cow disease (BSE), which has caused the death of more than 200,000 cattle and 165 people in the U.K., has now abated. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Society News (Taiwan Headlines) The Department of Health yesterday urged the US government to shape up its beef imports after the Bureau of Food Safety discovered a shipment of US beef contained chips of bone. [News Source]