By JARED FIELDS, Scripps Howard News Service

WEINART, Texas - Early on a cold morning in northern Haskell County, two helicopters set off to find feral hogs.

Next to the pilot in each two-seater helicopter is a gunner, armed with an assortment of laser-sighted rifles and shotguns to shoot the hogs they find.

At first Terry Diamond thought the jar sitting on an iron planter in the corner of her front porch was something leftover from the holidays. A jar with baked goods inside, perhaps.
Whatever it was, Diamond said she was "going to eat it up," when she found it Saturday night.
Diamond soon realized her cookie jar was instead an urn.