The NCAA has given full approval for Gallaudet's football team to use a helmet designed for players who are deaf or hard of hearing this season.

A group just outside of San Antonio is working to bring buffalo back to Texas, decades after the near extinction of the animals by the 1900s hurt the livelihoods of indigenous people and the environment.

A Colorado Springs man was gored by a bison at Yellowstone National Park on Monday and the incident was caught on camera.

Aliyah Boston scored 10 points and had 12 rebounds while top-seeded South Carolina’s stifling defense held Howard to the fewest points ever in a women’s NCAA Tournament game in a 79-21 victory.

The Arizona Game and Fish Department and National Park Service are seeking out volunteers to help with a “bison lethal removal effort” on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park.

WASHINGTON Highly touted prospect Makur Maker verbally committed to Howard University on Friday, picking the Bison over college basketball powerhouses UCLA, Kentucky and Memphis. The five-star recruit is the highest-ranked player to commit to a Historically Black College or University since ESPN began tracking rankings in 2007. Maker is a 6-foot-11, 235-pound center who declared for the NBA draft in April before opting to consider college basketball. Maker was born in Kenya and grew up in Australia before his family moved to North America. ___More AP college basketball: http://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and http://www.twitter.com/AP_Top25

Wildlife in Yellowstone National Park are wild. Its a message park officials are reiterating after a 72-year-old woman was gored several times by a bison. According to a press release from the National Park Service, the California woman approached within 10 feet of a bison multiple times to take its photo, before she was gored. The woman was injured at the at Bridge Bay Campground campsite Thursday evening. A report from CNN states that the woman was flown to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center after first being treated by rangers at the scene. Yellowstone slaughters wild bison to shrink parks herdsThe incident is under investigation, according to the press release.