A South Carolina family who adopted a pet deer is asking local hunters not to kill it, according to a Facebook post.The family said they allow “George” to roam freely around their Chester County property and beyond. But as the region gets deeper into hunting season, they felt compelled to alert local hunters, The State reported. “Local Hunters…Please don’t shoot the (7-point deer) with the yellow tape around his antlers,” the post read. “If you see him, its George!” read a post from Kena Lucas Funderburk. “Also, if you happen to see George, shoot us a message and let us know where! Very interested to see how far he travels this season.” The post ended with “#dontshootGeorge.” The family said they adopted the deer after its mother was hit by a car, The State reported. They said the animal formed bonds with their children and their pet dog as it grew older. When it was fully grown, the family allowed the deer to roam freely, even well beyond their property. They said the deer would leave for three to six-month stretches but always returned to their house. Kena said local hunters have responded positively to the family’s message, with most saying, “You’ll get a pass from us.”

A Texas man on trial in the shooting death of his father made an unusual request after the alleged crime took place, a neighbor testified Tuesday. “He asked for a hug,” Maria Torres told the jury, according to the San Antonio Express-News. Jesse David Vasquez Jr., 44, was fatally shot on April 17, 2016. His 24-year-old son, Jesse David Vasquez III, is charged with the killing. Torres testified that she heard “pops” from the house diagonally across from hers. When she crossed the street to see what happened, she looked inside the house and saw Ann Vasquez, the victim’s wife, attempting CPR on her husband, the newspaper reported. The younger Vasquez was outside the home, appearing “high, kinda nervous and frightened,” the witness said. When she asked why he shot his father, Vasquez shrugged, Torres said. “He said he didn’t regret it, he wasn’t sorry,” she recalled, according to the newspaper. Police arrived, but the father died before he could receive medical attention, according to the report.

A Pensacola woman is helping monarch butterflies fulfill their lifecycle. Krissa White started a butterfly garden in her front yard six years ago. It’s a place where caterpillars and butterflies are nurtured throughout their growing cycle. It’s also the source of a lot of debate in her neighborhood. Krissa White is one of the best friends a monarch butterfly can have. She is a retired teacher with a passion for nature. White says, “We gotta keep them here so we can have a good food source” Her front yard has butterfly-friendly plants and trees. “I have been known to bring them in, help them through their life cycle and once their adults and those wings are flapping I let them fly,” mentioned White. She is also on the do not spray list for mosquitoes in the area. “That prevents the caterpillars and butterflies from dying it’s a horrible, horrible sadness. I do feel like neighbors do think I’m the cause and one other person on the do not spray list for the whole a neighborhood to no get sprayed and that’s erroneous and I would like that corrected,” said White. White goes out of her way to help the colorful creatures, which have been declining in population throughout the years.

Students bobbed for apples in a mixture of booze and urine as part of a drink-fuelled initiation ceremony where a British student died, an inquest heard.First-year economics student Ed Farmer, 20, died after being found slumped in a corridor not breathing at the end of a student society’s night out in Newcastle in 2016. Although he was rushed to the hospital, he died the next day with his parents at his bedside. During the initiation, freshmen had their heads shaved by older students and drank vodka from a pig’s head after visiting bars in the city center. The inquest previously heard that 100 treble vodkas were consumed by the 40-strong group in just seven minutes at one of the stops on the undergraduate bar crawl. CCTV footage shown to the inquest showed Ed being carried by two friends in a Metro station at one point in the evening because he was too drunk to walk. He was later discovered not breathing at around 4 a.m. by the chairman of the Agricultural Society, James Carr, and driven to the hospital. The court was told that if Ed had been taken to hospital sooner, he may have been saved. Newcastle University had banned boozy initiations, leading to one student suggesting that others should deny knowledge of the ceremony in which Ed died.