The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
Published December 04 2009
Commission shoots down 5-pheasant limit (click here)
PIERRE — South Dakota’s bag limits for hunting pheasants will stay at three roosters daily and 15 in possession for the remainder of the 2009 season.The state Game, Fish and Parks Commission deadlocked Thursday on whether to increase the daily limit to five and the possession limit to 25. The vote was 4-3 in favor of the proposal. But a majority of at least five of the eight commissioners was needed for approval....
Published: Saturday, Dec. 05, 2009
Updated: Saturday, Dec. 05, 2009 12:38 AM
Federal, state officers to reveal details of cockfighting probe (click here)
By John Monk - The (Columbia) State
COLUMBIA (South Carolina)-- A federal grand jury has been looking into cockfighting in South Carolina, and federal and state law officers are set to reveal new details of their probe soon.
In early November, the grand jury indicted 21 people for felony animal fighting and illegal gambling at sites in Williamsburg and Lexington counties. Thirty-six others face state misdemeanor charges of attending cockfights.
Three local men were among the 36 charged in connection with the undercover cockfighting sting: James Bryant Rayfield, 67, of Clover; Bobby Joe Green, 50, of Chester; and Eddie Randal Morgan, 60, of Edgemoor. All were charged in Lexington County for cockfights near Swansea....
