A bald eagle was rescued from a public safety communications tower in Monmouth County, New Jersey, after its left wing got caught on an ice shield.
After hours of effort, authorities were able to free the bird — it is now recovering well. The father of Indianapolis Colts safety Rodney Thomas II has been appointed a federal public defender after federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania charged him with killing a bald eagle with an air rifle in May.
Rodney Thomas, 50, was indicted on a misdemeanor violation of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act in July – two months after allegedly causing an uproar in the Cherry Valley Lakeview Estates community, outside Pittsburgh, by shooting a beloved local eagle.
Thomas' financial filings used to justify the taxpayer-funded defense were not publicly available. His son played for Yale before the Colts drafted him No.