2008-09-13 Police kill dog near school-The Denver Post
Mudgett said the officers told Zowies father the dog tried to bite three people, but police wouldnt provide names of anyone allegedly attacked. The family said the police have refused to provide a report or dispatch records.
The rally at 1 p. m. will be at 1740 W. 40th Ave. The family wants police to review their procedures - to answer why animal control was not present, how long the officer tried to catch Rocky and why the dog with its visible tags couldnt be tranquilized.
2008-09-12 Name suppression lapses for three murder-accused-New Zealand news on Stuff. co. nz
The pair, who knew each other casually, were heavily involved in drugs and had ties to the Mongrel Mob and Greasy Dogs gangs in Tauranga, Detective Inspector Rob Jones said.
Interim suppression of the names of three Western Bay of Plenty men charged with murder expired at 5pm today.
Judge Louis Bidois ordered their names not be published until the trio had had time to inform their families.
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2008-09-12 Consumers get answers from Ga. Department of Agriculture Lincoln Journal
A: The practice of naming hurricanes is done to avoid confusion in written and spoken communications during storms. For several hundred years, storms in the West Indies were named after the saints day on which the hurricane occurred. During World War II, military forecasters would often name hurricanes after women. In 1953, the U. S. weather service adopted alphabetical lists of female names to be used each season. Lists alternating male and female names came into use beginning in 1979. There are 6 lists of international sounding names, which are repeated on a six-year cycle. The names of particularly damaging storms are removed from the list and replaced with other names so that the public is not confused by the memory of a storm with the same name.
2008-09-12 Tucson Weekly : Music : Keep Your Esophagus Safe
But Ive also been a fan of so many bands that when I first heard about them, I thought they had an awful name. " He goes on to say that once he understood these bands, their music and the context for their names, those names became perfect for the given project. " Will this happen for Dr. Dog fans
They also get grief for their name. "Im self-aware enough to realize that Dr. Dog is a very stupid combination of words--a very lowbrow, childish or foolish kind of name," McMicken says. "I can also see its more commonly aesthetically tied to hip-hop and jam-band names, two things that we are not.
2008-09-09 Dogs consider changes, but have little . au
But Eade hopes the challenge of meeting one of the AFLs perennially hardest-at-it teams this week will help the Bulldogs get back to those basics. And that two previous victories over the Swans this season, the first at the SCG and the second in Canberra, one of just two victories for the team in its past eight games, would also give them confidence. The Bulldogs have won the contested-possession count as well as the game against Sydney both times, and have also been super-efficient, scoring goals from 38 pct. of their inside 50s in both wins, the best strike rate of any side against Sydney this season.
The Western Bulldogs are facing a selection dilemma for Friday nights cut-throat semi-final against Sydney. - Realfooty - Dogs consider changes but have little
The clinic is located in Bloomington and services south-central Indiana with low-cost surgeries for cats and dogs. Pets ALIVE opened in March of 2005 and, since its start, has performed more than 30,000 surgeries to prevent unwanted litters.
The nonprofit organization was initiated as a catalyst for change, said Karla Kamstra, president of the board of directors for Pets ALIVE. They will continue seeking solutions for animal problems, such as finding homes for cats and dogs, Kamstra said.
2008-09-09 MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Sea Dogs roster surely will change
While it was fun to watch David Ortiz don a Portland Sea Dogs uniform for three days this summer at Hadlock Field, it was two other left-handed batters who helped make the year a success: namely Lars Anderson and Zach Daeges.
For the fifth straight year, the Sea Dogs roster included at least one player who started out in Portland (Masterson, Bowden and reliever Chris Smith) and earned a promotion to Fenway Park later in the season.
2008-09-09 A moment alone in a crib results in fatal dog bite
However, Jennifer Shryock, a dog behavior consultant from , a program that prepares families with dogs for life with a baby, said infants should never be left alone -- even for a moment -- with a dog, due to the animals unpredictability.
Both parents, whose names were not released, were home at the time. Hopatcong Police Chief John Swanson said no other children were in the house.
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2008-09-09 Road Dog supporters sign petition to release defendant in conspiracy case- Merced News, Real Estate, Jobs, Cars and more -
DENAIR -- Federal prosecutors cited a wiretapped phone conversation in which Lynette Petrie describes a backroom beating at Denairs Road Dog Cycle when a judge agreed that retired sheriffs deputy and shop owner Robert Holloway should remain in jail without bail pending trial on racketeering charges.
Tanya St. John, who lives a few blocks from the motorcycle shop, said she has friends and relatives who got good deals on motorcycles from Holloway. She thinks she would have heard something or seen something unusual if Road Dog Cycle was a dirty operation for 10 years, as prosecutors allege.
2008-09-08 Joshuah Bearman: The Delegate From Sadr City
Like thousands of other refugees from the uprising, Majid was misclassified as a POW and sat in the Saudi desert for five years. "We were treated like dogs. " he remembers. No -- not like dogs. I love dogs. Worse than dogs. Five years. I gave my youth to George H. W. Bush. "
Majid has been appointed to the tallying committee, meaning he will play a procedural role in voicing his states votes. "I cant wait," he says, "to see all the names there, and next to mine I will mark the box for Obama. "
