The Washington County Sheriff's Office says an officer did nothing wrong when he shot and killed two young deer and that he did so at the DNR's request. A couple living nearby had essentially adopted the fawns, which had been living in their yard for months, and filed a complaint following the shooting.

About six Whitetail deer smashed into windows and doorways at the Moorhead Center Mall early Saturday afternoon, police said.

DNR conservation officers came to the rescue of a white-tail buck that hopped a fence onto a college soccer field in La Crosse. Officials say the deer spent the night with his antlers caught in the netting of the goal. They attached a knife to a stick to cut the net from a safe distance, then opened a gate so the exhausted animal could stroll back to the woods.

The Northland man who made international headlines when he was convicted of having sex with a dead deer has been charged with assaulting a female officer. Bryan James Hathaway, 25, was arraigned Wednesday in Duluth and charged with four crimes stemming from an incident at a Walmart on Monday night.

The Department of Natural Resources says the decline is a result of a smaller deer population and a windy opening weekend of the firearms season. Minnesota deer hunters harvested 192,300 deer during the 2011 season. That's 15,000 fewer deer than in 2010. The 2012 deer hunting season begins in September.

Mark Christianson, 66, of Fertile, Minn., bruised and battered with two black eyes, says the deer started it. A gun ended it. “He was pummeling me, standing on his hind legs and hitting me with the front ones. He hammered me good, rapid fire, and I thought, ‘Well, this isn’t good.’ I wasn’t winning, so I grabbed him and tackled him and we both went down on the ground.”

For ten years Wisconsin had kept the disease confined to deer in the southern part of the state. But an infected doe found near Shell Lake changes that. The DNR will look for other sick deer in the area.