AM Headlines — 8.19.10

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer poses for a photo, as bears  walk towards him, near a marijuana crop in Christina Lake, British Columbia, recently. Police uncovered two separate outdoor marijuana crops of about 2,300 plants near Christina Lake, just a few miles from the  Canada-U.S. border. When officers arrived in the area two weeks ago, they found 13 black  bears wandering around the crops and then discovered the  bears had been fed dog food. (AP Photo/RCMP via The Canadian Press)

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