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A woman left covered in bug bites after she says police handcuffed her and held her down in a bed of fire ants has filed a lawsuit against the City of Santa Fe. Police say there's more to the story.

“Bring out the torch,” someone else suggested. Fire ants are forming rafts out of their own bodies in Texas floodwaters. KXAN The pesky bugs, which can cause painful stings, are rife in Texas.

The fire ants are transported on plants that are taken from the South and planted in the North. … But most fire ant stings happen to people in the southern states." ...