Fire official on trial in fatal beating of dog
Testimony is underway in the trial of a former Los Angeles County assistant fire chief accused of beating a neighbor’s dog in Riverside so badly it had to be euthanized. Glynn Johnson, 55, is charged...
View Article100 dogs dumped; no prosecution planned
Authorities have no plans to pursue charges against a Mississippi animal control officer suspected of shooting dogs and dumping their carcasses — more than 100 of them — into a creek. A Madison County...
View ArticleBear-Bear decision still a week away
Prosecutors say they are still at least a week away from deciding whether charges will be filed against the federal officer who shot and killed a Siberian Husky he thought was acting too roughly with...
View ArticlePup-tossing girl won’t be prosecuted
The Bosnian girl seen in a video throwing puppies into a river, and laughing while she did it, will not face any charges, the New York Daily News reports. The News, citing as sources members of PETA in...
View ArticleMore motions ruled on in Phoenix case
Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill has ruled in favor of the prosecution on several important pre-trial motions in the case of Travers and Tremaine Johnson, twins charged with...
View ArticleA cat named Mittens, a dog named Phoenix
As the case against two brothers accused of setting a pit bull named Phoenix on fire unfolds in a Baltimore courtroom, a cat named Mittens is nursing both her kittens and the wounds she received after...
View ArticlePit bulls: Trials and tribulations
We can’t remember a week — at least not since 2007, when federal authorities raided 1915 Moonlight Road – that pit bulls have grabbed so many headlines … without even biting anyone. Here in Baltimore,...
View ArticleKansas law student seeks justice for dogs
In a typical animal cruelty case — on those rare occasions they do get to court — you’ll see an attorney representing the people, and another representing a defendant. But you don’t see one...
View ArticleThe Mouse Bouts: And in this corner …
Have you heard about the Fighting Mice of the University of Wisconsin? No, that’s not the football team. These rodent warriors do battle not on the gridiron, but in the laboratory, where scientists...
View ArticleYou be the judge: Is this a vicious dog?
A Monroe County judge has upheld the First Amendment rights of animal activists appealing for the lives of three dogs rescued from a dog fighting bust. Advocates from the Monroe SPCA and Buster...
View ArticleJury wants 10-year sentence for dogfighter
A jury in Richmond has found Richard E. Robinson guilty and recommended a 10-year prison sentence — the longest prison term in Virginia’s history for a dogfighting conviction. The jury deliberated two...
View ArticlePETA urges prison time in elevator cases
PETA is asking the New York District Attorney’s office to “vigorously prosecute” Chris Grant and Tiara Davis — two residents of a city housing project that police say were caught on elevator...
View ArticleAnimal control officer who struck river rescue dog won’t be prosecuted
An animal control officer who struck a dog with his baton, leading to a cracked skull and the loss of an eye, did not use excessive force, authorities in Oregon have concluded. The officer, Hoyt Stepp,...
View ArticleWhat the Raven did to the gator and the dog
Once there was a Raven, an alligator and a dog, and the latter two were allegedly abused and neglected by the former. Apparently that’s all the information officials think we’re entitled to as the...
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