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COLUMBIA, Tenn. — An exotic red stag owned by country music singer Luke Bryan was shot and killed on his private property outside of Nashville last week, Tennessee wildlife officials confirmed.
Investigators think the deer was shot from the road, state Wildlife Resources Agency spokesman Barry Cross told The Tennessean on Monday.
The Maury County Sheriff's Office is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible, according to a bulletin posted to Facebook on Saturday.
Bryan and his wife Caroline help operate Brett's Barn on one of their properties, a petting zoo founded by the couple in memory of their niece, who died as an infant. Children can come there and interact with horses, pigs and more exotic animals such as kangaroos and an alpaca. Its unclear if the stag was involved with the zoo.
Bill Cosby lost his bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday, as an appeals court upheld the verdict. In its ruling, the Superior Court affirmed the right of prosecutors to call other accusers to bolster their case — the same issue fought over in movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault trial, now set for Jan. 6.“This decision is a reminder that no one is above the law,” Andrea Constand, the victim in Cosby's case, said in a text message to The Associated Press on Tuesday.Cosby's lawyers had complained that the judge had let five women testify at last year's retrial in suburban Philadelphia, although he had let just one woman testify at the first trial in 2017.Cosby, 82, maintains his innocence, he said, and still hopes to prevail at the state Supreme Court.
