Officials prepare for chronic wasting in deer (The Frederick News-Post) SHARPSBURG -- Chronic wasting disease, a contagious neurological disease that affects white-tailed deer, could devastate local deer populations, and National Park Service officials want to be prepared if the disease makes its way inside the boundaries of Monocacy and Antietam national battlefields [News Source]

Rockland AM Report (The Journal News) Fraud : Nadia Kana, 23, of Flushing, Queens, was arrested at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday at Target department store in the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack on charges of stealing $975 in merchandise with a stolen credit card, police said yesterday. [News Source]

The great tripe challenge (Pretoria News) If restaurant owner Jean-Claude Lefevre puts both spaghetti bolognese and kidneys on the day's menu, he knows he will get twice as many takers for the spaghetti. [News Source]

Mad Cow disease strain found to be more virulent than classical strain (News-Medical-Net) An atypical prion strain of mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BS, is more virulent than the classical strain, according to a researcher who spoke Nov. 14 at Kansas State University. [News Source]