Daniel Hamann admitted to shooting the 125-pound male cat last November. The Pioneer Press reports the 27-year-old waived his appearance in court and has until March 30 to pay $2,000.

“I came out and saw a cougar come out of the grove and run into the ditch,” Bruce Ihlen told the Worthington Daily Globe. “Then it went into the culvert.”

A new study by a University of Minnesota doctoral student indicates that cougars are moving east and are being spotted more frequently in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Among the reports, a mother says her young daughter reported seeing a "big cat" that may have been "stalking her" on her way to the school bus. Experts caution that nine out of 10 reports about cougars turn out to be something else, and that if it is a cougar, it will likely move along.

Department of Natural Resources officials say its the first cougar documented in Otter Tail County. They believe the big cat is traveling from the Black Hills in South Dakota.

The message was supposed to be a joke in reference to a recent cougar sighting in Iowa City. Bachmann rolled with the punches and said she's just grateful the school didn't call her 'the old lady in the shoe.'

Trail cams up north have captured another cougar making its way across toward Michigan. Experts with the Wisconsin DNR says three separate cameras have captured what they think is the same animal.

A North Mankato man is speaking up after his 12-year-old son was cited by police after shooting his air soft gun. Mike Johnston's says he knows of the potential dangers of guns, but he believes authorities went too far for prosecuting his son, Dyllon, in juvenile court for discharging a firearm in public. The boy was cited after a 19-year-old neighborhood woman called police to complain.