The next time that the folks at ESPN decide to highlight a local story about a young kid killing a big wild animal, they should try to make sure that the story they include doesn't crib wholesale from that bastion of truthiness, Wikipedia.

At the end of a homey tale about how the 10th great-grandson of Davy Crockett, a five-year-old Arkansas County boy, shot a black bear, someone decided to give readers a little more information about the famous pioneer. Unfortunately, he couldn't be bothered to write it himself. Here's the third-to-last paragraph, borrowed almost word for word from the Wikipedia entry on Crockett.

Davy Crockett was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; usually referred to as "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the age of 49 at the Battle of the Alamo.

The last two paragraphs, on the other hand, were taken from the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.

Crockett passed through Arkansas on his way from Tennessee to Texas in 1835. While at a Little Rock (Pulaski County) banquet given in his honor, he reportedly stated, "If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grow nowhere else on the face of the universal earth but just around the backbone of North America." Robert Crockett, one of Davy Crockett's grandsons, became the first mayor of Stuttgart (Arkansas County) after the town incorporated in 1889. The village of Crockett's Bluff (Arkansas County) was named in honor of Robert Crockett.

It's unclear whether the reporter Heather Crawford—who's given the byline on the article—included the information or it was tacked on by someone later. Her original report, filed with the TV station she works for in Arkansas, doesn't include the plagiarism.