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NOME, Alaska (AP) — State wildlife officials in Nome, Alaska, are turning to a unique source to try to keep a herd of musk oxen out of town.

Bear urine.

State wildlife biologist Tony Gorn tells KNOM (http://is.gd/QZEXE7) that they are almost daily now moving musk oxen out of town, but they keep coming back.

He says efforts like using rubber bullets or firecrackers hasn't persuaded the large animals to leave for good.

Gorn says some people think the oxen are trying to find a bear-free zone in Nome. So he's decided to try placing bear urine in a few small containers where the musk oxen have been problematic to see if that drives them out.

For anyone wondering where one can buy bear urine, Gorn says the Internet is a wonderful thing.

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Information from: KNOM-AM, http://www.knom.org

Amid reports that Saudi Arabia has deployed some 30,000 troops to its border with Iraq, President Obama has called King Abdullah to discuss the developments in the region.

Reuters quotes the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television as saying the kingdom has deployed forces to its border after Iraqi troops abandoned their positions amid a Sunni-led insurgency.

According to Reuters:

"The Dubai-based al-Arabiya said on its website that Saudi troops had fanned out into the border region after Iraqi government forces withdrew from their positions, leaving the Saudi and Syrian frontiers exposed.

"It aired a video which, it said, showed some 2,500 Iraqi soldiers in the desert region east of the Iraqi city of Kerbala after pulling back from the border, which is reinforced on the Saudi side by a system of fences.

"However, the Iraqi prime minister's military spokesman, Lieutenant General Qassim Atta, told reporters in Baghdad: 'This is false news aimed at affecting the morale of our people and the morale of our heroic fighters.'"

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DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's prime minister has apologized to two Romanian Gypsy families who had their children temporarily removed from their homes because they were blond and blue-eyed.

Prime Minister Enda Kenny's statement in parliament came as the government published a 134-page report Tuesday into police's October 2013 seizure of a 2-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl. Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald also met with the two families in private.

The report by Ireland's child rights official, Emily Logan, found police had no firm evidence to justify placing either child in temporary foster care. She concluded that police actions were driven by prejudice, ignorance and a European media frenzy over the alleged abduction of a blonde-haired girl by a Roma family in Greece.

The Greek case also proved to be a false alarm.