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The Chicago Police Department announced the arrest of the suspect who allegedly unleashed two violent dogs on police officers Sunday. Chicago resident Vernia Jones, 31, was charged with one felony count of aggravated battery of a peace officer, the Chicago Police Department told Fox News Digital. She also faces two misdemeanor counts of resisting or obstructing a peace officer. The incident happened when officers were patrolling in the 4000 block of West Wilcox Avenue in West Garfield Park shortly after 11:20 a.m. on Sunday. Police reported that a female suspect "attempted to intervene" in the officers' investigation and let two...

This is the moment that a heroic German shepherd rushed to protect its young owner after a neighbor's dog got loose and charged at the youngster. The six-year-old boy was playing on his front lawn with his dog, Tank, at his South Florida home when the hound suddenly made a frightening beeline for him on November 8. According to the boy's father, the neighbor's dog started charging toward his son. The family pet, Tank, a one-year-old German shepherd, sensed the boy was in danger and swiftly jumped into action to protect his best friend. Tank's guarding instinct kicked into overdrive...

....Joesph R. Biden Jr. was injured Saturday and was being examined by a doctor Sunday afternoon. According to the transition press pool Sunday, Mr. Biden slipped and twisted his ankle while playing with his dog Major. “Out of an abundance of caution, he will be examined this afternoon by an orthopedist,” the press pool wrote, citing the Office of President-elect Biden.

On Wednesday afternoon around 3:45 p.m., officials with the Tuckahoe Police Department received a call about a barking dog on the loose on Fairview Avenue. When they eventually managed to return Sadie to her home, officers noticed the sliding door in the backyard was open. Then, after walking the perimeter of the house, they “smelled an odor of gas coming from an open basement window,” the police department wrote on Facebook. Though it first appeared that “Sadie was being a bad girl,” the police department said, officials with the Eastchester Fire Department and Con Edison later determined there was a gas leak...

A Michigan man is recovering from a near-death experience thanks to his dog’s heroic actions. On New Year’s Eve, a man only identified as Bob went outside to get a log for his fireplace. Wearing only his slippers, long Johns and a shirt, Bob slipped and fell, breaking his neck. “I was screaming for help but my nearest neighbor is about a quarter mile away and it was 10:30 p.m., but my Kelsey came,” stated Bob. “By morning my voice was gone and I couldn’t yell for help, but Kelsey didn’t stop barking.” Bob laid in the snow for 20 hours,...

O’Connell and Garvin, both veterinarians, got married this September. And they wanted Charlie to be there But Charlie, who was 15 years old, had been diagnosed with a brain tumor earlier this year. His condition had deteriorated. And it was clear Charlie wouldn’t live much longer. “But they really wanted him in the wedding, because that’s the bride’s — that’s like her soul dog.” “He may not have been able to do what he wanted to do, and his body was definitely failing him,” O’Connell said. “But he was happy to be there.”

Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, nearly began sobbing at the thought of Clinton carrying her own bags, according to a report published on Thursday. "Abedin took her duties so seriously ... that when she learned that Clinton had once carried her own bag up a flight of stairs in her aide's absence, Abedin nearly burst into tears," an unnamed source said for the story in Newsweek.Abedin began working for Clinton as a White House intern in 1996, the same year that former intern Monica Lewinsky began working for President Bill Clinton. However, her career took a different...

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Sara Domaradzka had just escaped her family's burning two-flat in Portage Park early Tuesday when her dog Bambi scrambled out of her arms and raced back into the flames. Her family believes the 4-year-old terrier-Labrador mix knew Domaradzka's 69-year-old father was still in the home and went back after him. "She ran back into the house to find (Sara's) dad, and then they both got stuck there," said Domaradzka's boyfriend, Alessandro Mininni. Firefighters arrived at the home on the 5100 block of West Grace Street around 1:30 a.m. and carried out Piotr Domaradzka, who did not have any vital signs....

A drug house bust in Montgomery County led to one heck of a photo op for Libby, a new K-9 narcotics unit pit bull. Around 3:30 p.m. Monday, Libby and Precinct 4 constables were called to investigate a potential drug house in Splendora, according to the Montgomery County Police Reporter. The suspect inside, Michael Walker, copped to possessing a small amount of marijuana, but denied possessing anything else. However, after receiving consent to search the home, Libby and the constables found three mason jars and a food storage bag filled with marijuana

A 3-year-old North Dakota boy who disappeared for nearly seven hours was later found under the protective cover of the family’s pet dog, authorities said. Carson Urness disappeared from his family’s 10-plus acre property in Cooperstown, North Dakota, around 7:30 p.m. Monday after being let out to play while his mom worked inside the home, the boy’s father told ABC News. “She checked on him again at 7:30 and he was gone,” Carson’s father, Brock Urness, said of his wife, Courtney, who was inside taking care of the couple’s 11-month-old daughter while Carson played. - Cooper is the family’s dog...

Now that’s what I call a dog with heart! A house caught fire in Australia, and after everyone was out, the family dog Leo ran back inside. Leo was determined to save his four tiny, unlikely pals.

Meet Ruth (the cat) and Idgie (the dachshund). ... When the two were found, abandoned at the end of a driveway in Florida last October, 2-year-old Idgie refused to leave 7-month-old Ruth's side, protectively barking whenever anyone came near his kitten friend.

Sherree Lewis, who cares for her son's dog, Jack, is crediting the dog with saving the family cat, named "Kitty." Kitty nearly used up all of her nine lives in one fell swoop when two coyotes decided that she looked like their next meal. Lewis described the frightening scene: “ As I was walking to the door, I could see the coyotes over here," “ "One had her by the neck and the other had her by the tail,” Jack, seeing his feline friend in danger, quickly sprang into action, racing out of the house and after the attacking coyotes....

Bradley the 4-pound wiener pooch fights off a 400-pound beast after it goes after two Michigan men in the woods. Sadly, he died from his wounds but he is being hailed as a hero by his owner.A tiny dachshund has been hailed a hero after he sacrificed his own life to save two Michigan men from a brutal black bear attack. Bradley the 4-pound wiener dog stood up to the 400-pound beast after it struck in Oscoda County woods on Saturday. Refusing to let the giant tear up the duo, the puny pup jumped off their golf cart and started...

Animal control officers in Anderson, S.C., thought that a barking shih tzu was stuck in a ravine. Turns out, she was there nursing and protecting a tiny abandoned kitten she had found.

A family dog in Thailand is credited with bringing home an abandoned newborn baby on Monday. The two-year-old canine named Pui found a plastic bag with a newborn baby girl inside and carried the infant back home. Officials believe the baby was abandoned at a roadside dump in Tha Rua district of Ayutthaya province. According to a report in the Bangkok Post, when Pui returned home, it barked loudly to get it’s owners’ attention. A 12-year-old girl named Sudarat Thongmak came out of the home and was shocked to find the baby with her umbilical cord still attached. After getting...

A four-year-old Chihuahua came to the rescue of an eight-year-old Chilliwack girl after a neighbour's pit bull attacked her and began biting her face. Jenna Desrochers was outside in a backyard last Tuesday at around 5 p.m. PT when the neighbour's pit bull broke free from its enclosure and went after her. Soon after, her grandmother's Chihuahua came to the rescue. Anne Marie Desrochers, Jenna's grandmother, says the pit bull knocked Jenna down and began biting her face. Honey, a four-year-old Chihuahua, then came to the rescue by drawing the attacking dog away. "The pit bull took Jenna down at...

(Scroll down for video) A family dog helped alert parents that their 9-week-old baby has stopped breathing, according to reports. The Brousseau family rescued their dog six years ago, and the dog returned the favor on Sunday in Portland, Oregon. The Brousseaus say that the dog named Duke is responsible for saving the life of their baby daughter. On Sunday night, Duke jumped on the bed and trembled uncontrollably, enough to wake them. "If Duke had not been so scared, we would have gone to sleep," Jenna Brousseau said.

kidnapping attempt was thwarted in Indianapolis on Tuesday when a family's dog stopped an armed would-be kidnapper from leaving the family's home. Police say a man and a woman broke into the home of Nayeli Garzon-Jimenez through the back door while her husband was at work. Garzon-Jimenez was on the phone with her husband, Adolfo Angeles-Morales, at the time of the break-in. "She started screaming and crying, and said, 'Someone just stuck their hand in the door,'" Angeles-Morales told WISH-TV. "The guy said, 'Give me the money or we take the baby.'"