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ELLSWORTH COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a drow

An Ellsworth County sheriffs deputy, who was tossed 10 to 12 feet into the air by a buffalo last week, is now home and recovering.

M Samuel Avery of Kansas City, Mo., was charged with killing his neighbor by shooting him in the head on his front porch after an argument over lawn-mowing noise stemming from what Avery described as a decade of hostility between the two.

Authorities say a buffalo charged and seriously injured a Kansas sheriff’s deputy one day before the animal’s owner was found gored to death. Ellsworth County Sheriff Murray Marston said in a news release that the buffalo had wandered onto a state highway and the deputy was trying to get the animal back in a pasture when it charged. A deputy from a neighboring county “put down" the animal. Then, Monday morning, dispatchers got a call from a woman who said that she had found her nephew...

A charging buffalo seriously injured a sheriffs deputy early Sunday evening in Ellsworth County in central Kansas.

BUSHTON, Kan. (AP) -- A buffalo charged and seriously injured a Kansas sheriff's deputy one day before the animal's owner was found gored to death,