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Archdale, NC -- It sounds too bizarre to be true, but a local woman fended off a four-legged intruder's attack with a butcher knife. Nancy Verzone says a loose pit bull first went after her rat terrier in her backyard. When she snatched her dog from the pit bull's jaws, the attacking dog followed her inside. "Here I was just stabbing just as hard as I could to get him to let go and he kept coming and coming," says Verzone, who has the bloody t-shirt to prove it. "The harder I stabbed the more he got mad," she says....

HAPPY VALLEY -- Jayda Kempas, a 7-year-old who loves to play with Barbie dolls, was twirling on a tire swing and giggling with a friend when Titan leapt up and locked onto her left leg. The 90-pound pit bull mix yanked, and they both tumbled to the ground. Jayda's father, Steven Hehr, was smoking a Marlboro outside his friend's home in Happy Valley when he heard screams from the backyard. Titan, who was new to the home, usually stayed in the garage. But this time he had been left outside. Catching the first glimpse of his daughter, Hehr knew it...