Nine lives, sixth sense: Cat at veterinary clinic seeks out ailing cats
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| All cats may have nine lives, but Christopher, an orange and white tabby who lives at a Redwood City veterinary clinic, also has a sixth sense. Dubbing him a "guardian angel," "wonder cat" and "miracle kitty," the staff and volunteers at the Nine Lives Foundation's Feline Well-Care Clinic say Christopher can tell when other cats need help. He will sit outside the cages of sick felines until someone lets him in, and last month, the clinic says, he saved the life of a kitten in need of a blood transfusion. "It's weird, it's really true that he seems to understand... |
(VANITY) HELP! "Special" kittens need homes!
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| This is a ping to try to help save a couple young kittens who were either tortured or simply caught in a trap. |
Van der Sloot refuses to talk to judge
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Murder defendant Joran van der Sloot has refused to discuss his case with the Peruvian judge assigned to it. Judge Carlos Morales visited the 22-year-old Dutchman on Monday at Castro Castro prison in eastern Lima. |
Lemaricus Davidson gets 80 more years in torture-slaying case(Tn)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| The father of Channon Christian made a vow Friday to Lemaricus Davidson, the convicted ringleader in her kidnapping, rape, torture and murder. "I will do everything in my power to see that they stick that needle in you as soon as possible," Gary Christian said during Davidson's second sentencing hearing. Davidson is already under two death sentences for the 2007 murders of Christian, a 21-year-old University of Tennessee senior, and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, 23. He was back in Knox County Criminal Court to be sentenced on the other charges related to the crimes. |
Arraignment today for teen in Yule killing (XMAS Eve slaughter of Salvation Army Pastor)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| Arraignment today for teen in Yule killing Trial date scheduled in Salvation Army murder JOHN LYNCH ARDEMGAZ The teenager accused of gunning down a Salvation Army officer on Christmas Eve makes his first appearance today in Pulaski County Circuit Court to answer capital murder and aggravated robbery charges. Laquan Javaris Fitzpatrick, 19, who has addresses in Little Rock and Helena-West Helena, is to appear before Circuit Judge Barry Sims at 1:30 p.m. for arraignment on charges that carry the death penalty. The judge will also set trial dates for Fitzpatrick. Accused of killing Salvation Army Maj. Philip Wise on Dec.... |
Bond Set For Worker Accused In Cow Abuse Video
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| MARYSVILLE, Ohio -- A man accused of abusing cows at a local dairy farm said in court Thursday that he is studying to become a police officer in Ohio. Billy Joe Gregg, 25, appeared in court, charged with 12 counts of cruelty to animals. The charges against Gregg were filed after an animal welfare group released graphic video Tuesday that was secretly recorded and shows workers at Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City beating cows with crowbars, stabbing them with pitchforks and punching them in their heads. The video shows workers holding down newborn calves and stomping on their heads.... |
Nigerian senator who married a 13-year-old is "following the teachings of the Prophet."
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| Despite protests from human rights groups, Sani Ahmed Yerima, a 49-year-old senator in the Nigerian government, has just married a 13-year-old girl. This will be his fourth wife, and he bought her for… er… paid her Egyptian parents a dowry of $100,000. Of course, Senator Yerima doesn't much care what the critics say. He has Islam on his side: "The Prophet Mohammed married at the age of nine, therefore any Muslim who marries a girl of nine years and above, is following the teachings of the Prophet," Yerima told Al Jazeera….[I]n Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north, weddings of underage people do... |
Seattle jury says man should die for killing 4 [Conner Schierman]
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| SEATTLE -- A Washington state jury says a man convicted of killing the family of a National Guard sergeant who was serving in Iraq, then burning down the house in an attempt to conceal the crime, should be sentenced to death. The King County Superior Court jury's decision was read by Judge Gregory Canova on Wednesday and was met by silence in the courtroom. Conner Schierman was convicted last month of four counts of aggravated first-degree murder and one count of arson in the 2006 stabbing deaths of 28-year-old Olga Milkin, her two young sons and her sister. No clear... |
Lawyer: Punching-death defendant 'not evil'
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| (04-23) 18:50 PDT OAKLAND -- Prosecutors had no grounds to file murder charges in the fatal beating of a 59-year-old San Francisco man on a downtown Oakland street, an attorney for one of the defendants said Friday, describing his client as "not an evil person." "This is not a murder case. This is a case that, in our opinion, has been overcharged," Adanté Pointer, attorney for defendant Lavonte Drummer, 18, said after a brief hearing in an Oakland courtroom. Pointer said the case could be "something else," but did not elaborate on any potential defense. Drummer and Dominic Davis, 18,... |
Teen Driver On Woman's Death: 'She Was Old'
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| A teenager charged with crashing a van into a house, killing a woman gardening, told police she didn't feel so bad after learning the victim's age. According to court documents obtained by CBS Radio's 1010WINS, Kayla Gerdes was quoted in a written statement to police saying: "The thing that made me not feel so bad was she was old," she said. "I mean, 70 years is a long time to live." Then, on a completely separate note, she told police: "I want to see a newspaper or the news to see what I look like." Gerdes is facing vehicular manslaughter... |
Mow-down LI teen has a sick way of looking at bright side of death [Do I look hot in my mugshot?]
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| She mowed down a helpless, elderly woman while driving a van high on drugs, but a twisted Long Island teen still claimed to see a bright side to the horrific crash. "The thing that made me not feel so bad was, she was old," hellcat Kayla Gerdes, 18, told investigators after she was busted for killing 69-year-old Rebecca Twine Wright as the retired doctor trimmed her lawn Tuesday, a source told The Post. Gerdes, of Freeport, claimed to once be a model. And she was so self-absorbed in the hours after the wreck that she told cops interviewing her she... |
Cops: Man apparently killed by dogs raised by daughter (pit bull attack)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| Police are investigating the death of a 56-year-old Far South Side man whose daughter came home Sunday night to find him covered in blood and apparently killed by the pit bulls she was raising, police sources said. Johnny Wilson was found in the living room of his home in the 10200 block of South Aberdeen Street with numerous bite marks on his body, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Other sources said he suffered massive head, chest and upper body trauma. |
Therapeutic Benefits of the Human-Animal Bond
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| A pet owner knows the enormous joy and comfort that an animal can provide, especially in troubled times. Most pets are considered important members of the family and irreplaceable companions. A growing body of research now documents the value of the human-animal bond in child development, elderly care, mental illness, physical impairment, dementia, abuse and trauma recovery, and the rehabilitation of incarcerated youth and adults. In two articles in a recent issue of Family Process, titled "Human-Animal Bonds I," (focused on the benefits of companion animals) and "Human-Animal Bonds II," (focused on their role in couple and family dynamics and... |
Torture-slaying sentence: Death for Davidson
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| KNOXVILLE - A Knox County jury this afternoon sentenced convicted torture-slaying ringleader Lemaricus Davidson to death by lethal injection for the January 2007 murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. The jury of five women and seven men deliberated about four hours before returning its decision to a packed courtroom. “The punishment is death,” the jury foreman said. |
Torture-slaying sentence: Death for Davidson (Christian/Newsom Murderer)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| KNOXVILLE - A Knox County jury this afternoon sentenced convicted torture-slaying ringleader Lemaricus Davidson to death by lethal injection for the January 2007 murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. The jury of five women and seven men deliberated about four hours before returning its decision to a packed courtroom. “The punishment is death,” the jury foreman said. The victims' families gasped at the verdict, but Davidson showed no reaction. Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner admonished those in the courtroom to control any outburst. “The murder was especially heinous, atrocious and cruel,” the foreman said, reading from the verdict form.... |
Jury delivers death sentence to Davidson in torture slayings of couple in Knoxville
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| A Knox County jury delivered the death sentence this afternoon to the ringleader in the torture slayings of a young Knoxville couple following a carjacking. The same panel of seven men and five women who convicted Lemaricus Davidson, 28, in the 2007 attack on University of Tennessee student Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom, 23, decided his fate. Davidson was found guilty of more than 30 counts, including felony murder and premeditated murder of each victim. The jury had a choice of a life sentence mandating a minimum of 51 years in prison, life without parole with no... |
'Night Stalker' Tied to Slaying of S.F. Girl (Richard Ramirez)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| Two decades after the devil-worshiping "Night Stalker" killer was sentenced to die for 13 Southern California murders, DNA evidence has tied him to the 1984 rape and slaying of a 9-year-old girl in the Tenderloin, San Francisco authorities said Thursday. The DNA links Richard Ramirez and possibly a second, unknown attacker to the April 10, 1984, killing of Mei "Linda" Leung, whose body was found hanging over a pipe in the basement of her apartment building at 765 O'Farrell St., police said. The girl was with her 8-year-old brother when she lost a dollar bill and went looking for it,... |
PETA loves corporations that promote fine meat, horseracing
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| By Andrew W. Griffin Red Dirt Report, editor Posted: October 7, 2009 reddirtreporter@gmail.com OKLAHOMA CITY – Back in July, we here at Red Dirt Report noted how the radical animal-rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) had blood on their hands no thanks to their decision to kill 95 percent of the dogs and cats put in their care in 2008. PETA found homes for less than one out of every 300 animals at their so-called “shelters.” PETA loves animals, right? It’s not looking that way. Just check out the informative website Petakillsanimals.com for more information. And... |
In honor of Kelly Ann Walz, bear dope.
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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Plainfield dog officer injured in pit bull attack(CT)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| Send Correction Plainfield — An animal control officer was injured late Tuesday night when a pit bull lunged at her and knocked her to the ground. Animal Control Officer Theresa Foss, a 17-year veteran, responded to the call at the Roberts' residence at 270 Green Hollow Road about 10:48 p.m. after it was reported the dog would not let a resident exit the house. The dog alternated from the front and rear doors of the house, police said. The dog does not belong to the Roberts. The dog is described as a pit bull, white in color with some brown... |
Picture emerges of Yale suspect as controlling
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler for the rules who often clashed with researchers and considered the mice cages his personal fiefdom. |
Police: 12 Year Old Sexually Assaulted, Forced to Sell Pot
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| NORCO-- A man is accused of repeatedly forcing a 12 year old girl to have sex with him as well as forcing her to sell marijuana, sheriffs officials say. Julio Louis Cortes, 25, of Westminster is suspected of forcing the 12 year old female victim to have sex and to sell marijuana for the past six months. During the sexual assaults, Cortes threatened the 12 year old at gunpoint, said Sgt. Matthew Sims of the Norco Sheriff's Department. Cortes was arrested on Friday September 11th after deputies received a report of sexual assault from the 12 year old female victim.... |
"Nudging" America to Give Up Meat
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| The number of animals and plants protected by the federal Endangered Species Act is about to increase dramatically. For Cass Sunstein, radical animal-rights activist and nominee for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator job, that means he will be better positioned than ever to make livestock farming a thing of the past.How are the two things connected? Our director of research appeared on the Fox News Channel yesterday to explain to Glenn Beck’s audience how much influence Sunstein may soon have over what we eat: Cattlemen in this country own and manage most of the lands... |
Man accused of raping autistic 7-year-old girl
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| HUNTINGTON BEACH: A Huntington Beach man was arrested Wednesday afternoon on allegations he abducted, sodomized and raped an autistic 7-year-old girl. The girl was playing in the back yard of her apartment complex when she was taken against her will to a neighboring apartment, where she was assaulted and then released, Huntington Beach Police said in a news release issued late Friday The girl's parents called the police and after interviewing her and witnesses, arrested Daniel Blas Flores, 27, who they found hiding in the bedroom of his apartment. |
He's the daddy - to 21 children
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 06:28:24 AM
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| Desmond Hatchett's children have 11 different mums and their ages range from a newborn to 11-years-old. The prolific father even boasted of fathering four tots by different women in the same year His giant brood came to light after authorities in Tennessee took Hatchett to court for non payment of child support. [snip] Hatchett, who earns minimum wage, told reporters he knows the names and ages of all his children. [snip] Hatchett's lawyer Keith Pope said: "The children can't all be supported by Desmond, so the state of Tennessee has had to step in." |
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