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Jeers to Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh, who commissioned a wrong-headed plan that allows USDA agents to start killing deer ...

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The flesh-eating fly larvae, which were recently detected in Mexico, were declared eradicated from Texas in the 1960s.

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