wolf often tweets about eating ungulates, or asking journalists, "Why the fixation with my love life?"

So beloved is OR-7 in Oregon that a newspaper cartoonist depicted him as a candidate during the 2012 presidential campaign.

Despite the high tech gadgetry hanging from his neck, sightings are rare. Kovac's department updates a tracking map when OR-7 moves significantly out of an area, but since July he has been hanging out mostly in Tehama County, and wildlife officers don't want the public to know exactly where. Cattle ranchers, however, are warned if he gets too close or stays too long in one area.

"When we believe he's reached a threshold, when he's hanging around in one area too long ... we have felt compelled to knock on doors and tell them toReport: State still lags behind in child well-being

Lakesha Richardson said the fire that destroyed her home in April was a mixed blessing.

On the one hand, she and her four children -- whose ages range from 5 to 12 -- lost everything.

On the other hand, the fire bumped her ahead of the hundreds of people on the waiting list for housing from the Columbus Housing Authority. Richardson, who had been living in a two-bedroom house with her grandmother since her divorce about six years ago, had been trying to get her own place for years.

"We lived in one of these units when I was growing up," Richardson said, looking around at the small living room, newly furnished with things her family and church friends have given her since the