Dog trainer and killer she allegedly smuggled out of jail waive extradition 
KRIS-TV Corpus Christi - 1 hour, 0 minute ago
ATHENS, Tenn. A convicted killer who escaped from prison will be heading back to Kansas from Tennessee. And so will the dog trainer who’s accused of smuggling him out of…Save to My Web

TRIBUNE COLUMN Change in administration would put dog back in charge of its tail 
Columbia Daily Tribune - Feb 27 11:54 AM
By BILL CLARK In mid-January, Ol Clark wrote a column that suggested University of Missouri-Columbia Chancellor Brady Deaton should call Chancellor Gordon Gee at Vanderbilt University and find out how it is to operate a major athletic program without an athletic director an athletic program totally integrated into the student life and university affairs division, governed by the vice chancellor.Save to My Web

Dog’s Name Change Likened to Tobacco Company Name Change 
adrants - 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
We think there’s a great point behind this new Truth campaign commercial in which the notion of changing a corporate name to avoid negative connotations is debunked but the execution just seems, well, not so compelling. Maybe it’s just… Save to My Web

Dog Days of Winter Can Be Deadly 
Los Angeles Times - Feb 27 5:09 AM
Stray voltage on the slushy streets of New York poses an electrocution risk to anyone on foot, but particularly dogs.Save to My Web

Dog displaced in hurricane reunited with owner 
Benton Courier - Feb 27 10:53 AM
Rosa, one of many dogs displaced by Hurricane Katrina, is home for the holidays. Saline County residents Paul and Kathy Covert provided a foster home for Rosa for the past three months and a few days ago took the dog back to her owner, a man in poor health, just in time for Christmas.Save to My Web

Police disbelieve dog story 
Denver Post - Feb 26 10:32 PM
Edgewater police said Sunday they no longer believe the statements made by a young woman who said she rescued a small puppy after seeing two teenagers toss it between them near 20th Avenue and Otis Street on Friday.Save to My Web

Vet: Abandoned duct-taped dog needs more surgery 
al.com - Feb 26 12:00 PM
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) Lucky, the dog found duct-taped in a Decatur trash bin, is being considered for a prosthesis for its amputated right leg.Save to My Web

Building The Googtopia Out Of Legos
WebProNews – The beauty of being a young idealist billionaire is that you can set up a little world exactly the way you like it. The exception, perhaps, is that everybody’s horning in on your private life-but who isn’t fascinated by quirky weirdness of the

Global Deception a story that never ends
Canada Free Press – Heads Up to John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the UN: You won t be able to put it down. Author Joe Klein s book, Global Deception that is. Klein s new book has made it to Bolton s reading list. So many in the latest round of book expos s on the

Program flies helper dogs to trainers
AZCentral.com – Amelia took her first plane ride on Thursday, and by all accounts, she is in puppy love with flying. The 8-week-old black Labrador, named after famed pilot Amelia Earhart, is the newest addition to the US Airways Puppies in Flight program, a

Reward offered for return of Bull Terrier
10 News – The Tri County Humane Society in Boca Raton has indicated that one of their Bull Terrier/Boxer puppies has been stolen from their facility on February 18. A tip has indicated that the dog may be in the Tampa area. Jessica is a 5-month old Bull

It’s A Dog’s Life, Today, 10 a.m.
Pensacola News Journal – You know his name. You know his images. Now you can see his work for real. “It’s A Dog’s Life: Photographs by William Wegman from the Polaroid Collection” will open Friday at the Pensacola Museum of Art. The show will be on display through April 1

Ezra Klein: Won t Somebody Please Think of the Puppies!?
Outside Beltway – While he agrees with Digby that, intellectually, it makes little sense to argue that life begins at exception but abortion is nonetheless okay in the cases of rape and incest, this does not make abortion foes hypocrites. Instead, it just shows that

Savory and smoky: Small barbecue restaurant hard to find, but worth
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin – Located in a shopping center hidden away from what seems an endless number of new tract homes in North Fontana is a small but wonderful barbecue restaurant called Up N Smoke BBQ. This home-style eatery seats about 12 people with additional capacity

Activitsts call for end to puppy farming 
Irish Examiner - Feb 24 2:40 AM
By Senan Hogan UP to 50 animal rights activists last night picketed the D il to call for dog breeding regulations to outlaw puppy farms.Save to My Web

Fire Destroys Davidson County Mobile Home 
WXII ThePiedmontChannel.com via Yahoo! News - Feb 24 5:28 AM
A Davidson County couple is without a home after a Thursday night fire.Save to My Web

Woman jumps into well to save dog 
Rocky Mount Telegram - Feb 25 9:19 PM
NASHVILLE Firefighters saved a woman Saturday who jumped into an abandoned well to save her drowning dog.Save to My Web

Briefing, February 27 
Rocky Mountain News - 1 hour, 13 minutes ago
An Edgewater woman who claimed she saved a 3-week-old Pekinese puppy Friday could be charged with filing a false report, police said Sunday.Save to My Web

Ellis wins playing time in big loss 
San Francisco Chronicle - Feb 26 3:53 AM
So this is what it’s come to when the Warriors play the Spurs: The games are such blatant mismatches that the most pleasurable activity is watching the young ‘uns. To see puppies like Monta Ellis, Ike Diogu and Andris Biedrins cut their teeth against…Save to My Web

1976 movie foreshadowed Fox, ‘reality’ TV 
Deseret Morning News - Feb 23 11:51 PM
In November 1976, when I was a rookie reporter at the Ogden Standard-Examiner, a free movie screening was offered to journalists. Hey, anything free was attractive in those days. This was long before I became a critic, and I loved movies, so the prospect of a free flick was a very big deal to me.Save to My Web

Pups Trained As Frequent Fliers: Airline Workers Get Assistance Dogs Ready for Duties 
RedNova - Feb 24 10:57 AM
By Hayley Ringle, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz. Feb. 24–Bill and Sue Eisenman waited with cameras in hand to see their new 8-week-old, Amelia, come down the Jetway on Thursday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.Save to My Web

North Bay parades ‘Our Way’ 
The Biloxi Sun Herald - 3 minutes ago
The gusty tale of Sunday’s strong winds during the North Bay Area parade in D’Iberville is about beads thrown from the front of a float that landed in the back of the same float. Continuous and cool, the strong breeze masked the sunshine that gave many paradegoers their first burn of the year.Save to My Web

Obituary – Harold ‘Mike’ Wilshire
Derrick – Harold “Mike” Wilshire, 83, of Waldorf Road, Summerville, died at 11:20 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh. Born April 25, 1922, in Clarion, he was the son of John J. and Pauline Dietz Wilshire. He attended Immaculate

Update 3: Westminster Remembers Katrina’s Lost Dogs
Forbes – When he was a boy, Hiram Stewart took a bus to Virginia, put a puppy in a paper bag and cradled it all the way home to New Orleans. For more than three decades, he’s cared for dogs in the Big Easy. Usually champion dogs, the kind that will reach the

Dalmatian Hopes to Win at Westminster
WPVI – A few years ago and fresh off starring in “101 Dalmatians” as the evil Cruella De Vil, Glenn Close was walking around backstage at America’s biggest dog show. She was in a hurry, and breezed right by the aisle lined with eager Dalmatians. Come to

Options Explained, Sort Of
Motley Fool – We’ve been asked, “Can you explain options to me? I don’t mean employee stock options, but the other kind.” It’s a tricky topic, but here’s an overview of an answer. Imagine you want to invest in Legal Beagles (ticker: WOOFF), a new company providing

Creasure hunt coincides with Chinese New Year’s parade in San
Oakland Tribune – SAN FRANCISCO – As thousands lined the city streets to watch San Francisco’s annual Chinese New Year Parade, others made it a strategic point to avoid the spectacle. On Feb.11, San Francisco Treasure Hunts held its 16th annual flagship event during

Wild-rabbit stew lifts midwinter blues
Anchorage Daily News – HAINES — Parker Schnabel is 11 years old and has deep dimples, a quick smile and a twinkle in his eyes that makes you wonder what he’s up to and hope — that in case it is slightly out of the ordinary — that he won’t get hurt or caught. He plays

First doggie day care opens in Barrington
Dover Community News – A dog really is man s best friend, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturer s Association, Inc. (APPMA) 2005/2006 National Pet Owners Survey – 43.5 million households in the United States own a dog, followed by a cat coming in at a

No sale
Anderson Independent-Mail – If you’ve ever passed a flea market table, you’ve seen them: sad-eyed, sometimes bouncing around like they’re on a caffeine high, other times curled in a tight little ball, the almost imperceptible rise and fall of breathing the only thing giving

Dental health important to pets’ health
Inside Bay Area – FEBRUARY IS National Pet Dental Health Month, and for good reason. Just like humans, the dental health of our pets is directly linked to their general health and quality of life. According to the American Veterinary Dental Society, our pets’ dental

Dental health is necessary for pets, too
Ashland Daily Tidings – Frank and Lee O Reely had reached the end of their rope. They had known for several years that their 8-year-old Yorkshire Terrier Sweetie had severe periodontal disease that was progressively getting worse. At first the smell from her mouth was

‘Running Scared’ is a sad mess
Arizona Daily Star – On Paul Walker’s Internet Movie Database biography, under the “trivia” headline, it says, “He doesn’t like to watch himself on screen.” Seems Walker has something in common with those who’ve suffered through “2 Fast 2 Furious” and “Into the Blue

Pet Store Investigation, Part 2
WQAD – Holly Van Dewalle loves animals, so right before Christmas she went to this pet shop in Davenport called C and A to buy a pet. She was surprised by what she found inside. “When I walked into the store, it reeked like a garbage dump. And the hampster

7 displaced by fire in Waynesboro
Herald-Mail – Damage from a two-alarm apartment house fire Friday afternoon was limited, but seven people were temporarily displaced from the building until repairs are made. “When we pulled up and saw the smoke coming out of all four sides of the building it