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Authorities capture mysterious goat in Des Moines

DES MOINES, Iowa

Animal-control officers in Des Moines used a tranquilizer to capture a mysterious goat that had dived into traffic and was on the run for hours.

The Boer goat got a taste of freedom recently as she evaded capture on the city’s south side. The brown and white animal with floppy ears ran into traffic and eventually went into a fenced car dealership.

The Des Moines Register reports officers chased the goat around the dealership before using a tranquilizer to stop her.

Officials say the goat appears to be healthy and uninjured. Authorities are now looking for her owner.

Last month, animal-control workers in Des Moines took into custody a roughly 200-pound pot-bellied pig that had spent weeks on the loose in an east side neighborhood.

Iowa college says squirrel vandalized professor’s bicycle

ESTHERVILLE, Iowa

A squirrel roaming a community college in northern Iowa has become the No. 1 suspect in a vandalized bicycle incident.

Officials at Iowa Lakes Community College in Estherville say the rodent chewed through two tires, a bicycle seat, a headlight and a taillight in the span of two days recently.

The Sioux City Journal reports the bicycle owner, an associate math professor, reported the incidents to Estherville police. Another professor later came forward with a photo that shows the squirrel attacking the bike.

A school spokeswoman says the photo helps solve the mystery of how the bicycle was vandalized without witnesses seeing a suspect.

The professor has since parked his bicycle indoors.

Ohio State fans name baby daughter Scarlet Gray

SANDUSKY

A couple who root for Ohio State say they’ve made sure their baby daughter embraces their football allegiance by giving her a name that implies automatic fandom: Scarlet Gray.

And those are the colors that Justin and Kim King’s 3-month-old daughter wears as her family watches Saturday games on their big-screen television.

Justin King tells The Sandusky Register the infant won’t have any choice but to be a Buckeyes fan for life.

Scarlet’s 3-year-old sister doesn’t share that obligation. Her name is Violet.

Associated Press