Man, 70, Fined $19,500 In Eagle's Death

BERLIN — A German appellate court in Stuttgart proposed a $19,500 fine yesterday against a 70-year-old man who fatally beat an escaped golden eagle with his walking stick after it attacked his dachshund. The court agreed with a lower court's decision that a wildlife center that let the eagle escape was partly responsible, but it attributed even more blame to the pensioner, more than doubling his penalty.