Animals
Stolen dog leads to chilling discovery
A couple's discovery of their missing dog for sale on a pet adoption Web site led police to a Long Island home where more than 50 dogs were living in squalid conditions, authorities said.
The dogs, some sickly and underfed, were removed from the Melford home Wednesday night and taken to a shelter to be examined by veterinarians, authorities said.
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Laws Must Be Created To Keep Police From Killing Dogs
Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table.
Suddenly, police with guns drawn kicked in the door and stormed in, shooting to death the couple's two dogs...
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15 Year Old Killed At High School
A 15-year-old boy was stabbed during an after-school robbery at a suburban high school and died at a hospital early Saturday, authorities said. Michael Alguera was playing handball with two friends on a court at Hempstead High School on Friday afternoon...
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Four Preschoolers Thrown From Dauphin Island Bridge By Dad
With all the hoopla over the Jacks in the blog world this tragedy has flown under the radar. The Mobile County District Attorney's Office is charging an Irvington man with four counts of capital murder in the deaths of his four children, ages three...
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Minor Head Injury Results In Swat Team Invading Home
An armed law enforcement team broke down the door of a family home with a battering ram and took an 11-year-old to a hospital after authorities feared he was not getting proper medical care for what turned out to be a minor head injury Even the mainstream...
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What Have Scylla & Charybdis Been Up Too?
We have applied to adopt a Virtual Squillion. We are very excited about it. But we want to remind everyone that there are a lot of real cats and dogs that need forever homes. We wish we could give them all a forever home for Christmas. We read about...
Animals