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MANATEE - A 6-year-old boy remained in a shocked state Saturday, one day after he was bit by a pit bull while retrieving his backpack from a neighbor's home. Kevin Banks and his cousin were walking to a neighbor's home in Pride Park just after 7:30 a.m. Friday, when Banks was bit twice in the chest and nipped once in the face, according to his mother, Tiffany Jones. The two ran back home, "crying at the top of their lungs," Jones said. Banks, who attends Daughtrey Elementary, hasn't talked much since the attack. "He won't say much more than two...

Robert Bijold has heard plenty of news stories about pit bull attacks. But this weekend, Bijold suddenly found himself fighting a 60-pound pit bull-boxer mix that had his 3-year-old daughter, Jessie, in its jaws. “It was the most horrifying thing a parent can go through,” said Bijold. The Bijolds were at a family get-together Saturday evening on Park Avenue in Yuba City when the dog, which belongs to a relative, attacked Jessie in the backyard. Other children were playing with it only minutes before. Bijold was horrified when he saw the dog grab Jessie's head and shake the little girl....

The Lubbock County Medical Examiner is completing the autopsy of a man brutally mauled to death in Spur. Dickens County Sheriff Ken Brendle tells us two pit bulls apparently attacked 49-year-old Frank Campbell Baber early Monday morning. Baber lived in a motor home inside Blackburn's Auto-Salvage in Spur. The owner discovered Baber's body around 9:20 a.m. and called police. Right now, investigators do not know what prompted the attack. We're told the victim has lived around the animals for about the past three months. He does not own the dogs, but shares the salvage yard with them. Sheriff Brendle tells...

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A nine-year-old Florida boy is home from the hospital after being severely bitten by a pack of dogs while riding his bike to school. The dogs turned on the boy and five other children as the students arrived at Hogan-Spring Glen Elementary on Beach Boulevard near Jacksonville Tuesday morning. "We were riding our bikes to school then these dogs came up and bite us," said Kristy Nesbitt. She was one of the students attacked by the dogs. "One of the kids did get bitten in the forehead, and in the leg and arm," the girl said. Teachers...

SENATE RESOLUTION 82--EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE TO URGE THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION RELATIVE TO C-802 CRUISE MISSILES (Senate - May 05, 1997) [Page: S3968] Mr. BENNETT (for himself, Mr. D'Amato, Mr. Helms, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Ashcroft, Mrs. Hutchison, and Mr. Brownback) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations: S. Res. 82 Whereas the United States escort vessel U.S.S. Stark was struck by a cruise missile , causing the death of 37 United States sailors; Whereas the China National Precision Machinery Import Export Corporation is marketing the C-802 model cruise missile for use against...

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control is investigating a pit bull attack that sent a Boca Raton man and his dog to a hospital. Last Thursday, Curtis Harris said he was walking his 5-year-old retriever-mix in the Palmetto Pines neighborhood when two pit bulls attacked them. Harris was treated for bites to his elbows, legs and hands. His dog Rascal received numerous bites, and his leg was shattered. Harris said two women had to pull the pit bulls off him and his dog. "I'm a combat veteran. I was in Vietnam, and I don't think...

A neighbor heard Raymond Tomco shouting yesterday but figured he was just yelling at his dogs. Then Tomco's daughter came home, went up the driveway past the pink roses nearby and opened her door to three bloody pit bulls. She walked inside. Her screams were unmistakable. Christina Tomco had found the body of her 78-year-old father covered in his own blood in the hallway of his Lusby home, according to the Calvert County Sheriff's Office. Officers said the retired builder had "countless" bite marks on his arms and hands. Authorities strongly suspect he was killed by the animals

ORLANDO, Fla.--The Army is developing a weapons and body armor system that will give foot soldiers a digital battlefield map on a helmet video display. The system, known as Land Warrior, is a combination of body armor, weapons system and command and control system. The soldier wears a helmet assembly subsystem with software and radio communications.

Dogs Did Not Have Identification; Rabies Tests Under Way INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Police shot and killed three pit bulls Thursday night after the pack mauled three men, KMBC's Kris Ketz reported. The three separate attacks all occurred within the same block of East 23rd Street and Kings Highway. All three victims were taken to local hospitals. Two are in serious condition, and one is in critical condition. The pit bulls first attacked a man walking down East 23rd Street at about 6 p.m. The man jumped in the back of a nearby pickup to try to evade the dogs. A...

GLOVERSVILLE - Michael Ward, the owner of the 2-year-old pit bull that attacked a small bichon frise March 31, will be taking the dog back to its breeder Saturday to fulfill his court obligations to remove the dog from Gloversville without having to euthanize him. "I called [the breeder] and he didn't want the dog to go to someone he didn't know and he wanted to make sure the dog had a safe home," Ward said. "Everybody thinks that he's a vicious dog because of the breed. Everybody is being discriminating against it. [The breeder] breeds them and he knows...

Dog has been placed in quarantine, but girl’s mother wants to see more done Sydney Robbins wanted to see the puppies. There were 10 of them, all cuddled behind a couch near their mother, a pit bull named Jasmine. But as the 11-year-old approached, Jasmine lunged, latching onto her chin and lower lip and shaking the girl’s body, according to her family and a Benton County Sheriff’s Office report. When the attack was over, most of Sydney’s lower lip and some of her chin were gone. Her shirt was drenched with blood and a pulpy hole exposed her teeth and...

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Law enforcement officers shot and killed three pit bulls in two separate incidents this weekend in the Twin Counties. On Sunday, an Edgecombe County deputy wounded himself while trying to stop a charging dog on Whitaker Road near Rocky Mount, authorities said. Deputy Elwood Whitaker was treated for a minor bullet wound to the leg Sunday night at Nash General Hospital, authorities said. "We've had numerous calls about the dog," said Capt. Delano Smith. "One woman gets in her car and drives to her mailbox because she's scared of the dog." Cujo, a 3-year-old pit bull,...

people including two small children and a police officer were attacked Saturday afternoon by pit bull. The incident happened in front of a house on Maplehurst Street in DeKalb County, witnesses said. Neighbors said the attacked was unprovoked but the dog's owner told police that several neighborhood children had been harassing the animal. A neighbor said the pit bull first attacked the dog owner's daughter, then tuned and bit him in the arm after he stepped in to defend the child. Witnesses said the animal later attacked two other children and their mother before police arrived. An aunt of the...

A Sand Springs woman is badly bitten by her neighbor's two pit bulls Thursday night, while she was in her living room. She thinks the dogs were after her two daschunds when they came crashing through the screen door and as News on 6 reporter Steve Berg explains, she got caught in the middle. Teresa Willis is covered with bruises and bites after a terrifying encounter with her next-door neighbors' two pit bulls. "To put it mildly, it was extremely terrifying." It all happened as she was sitting in her living room. It was a mild evening so she slid...

KDKA) AMBRIDGE A Beaver County man is upset because he says police didn't have to kill his dog. Kevin Corlew of Ambridge says police shot his one-year-old pit bull on Saturday. Police tell KDKA that they received complaints from neighbors the dog was loose. When officers tried to restrain the dog, they say the animal charged at a boy and then at an officer. Then, an officer shot the dog. Corlew says the dog was harmless.

By staff report April 4, 2006 A St. Lucie County sheriff's deputy was attacked and bitten by a pit bull Saturday, one of two he was trying to catch after they attacked and nearly killed a small dog. According to sheriff's reports, Deputy Charles Wiley was trying to help Animal Control Officer Linda Van Rixal capture two pit bulls loose in the 7300 block of Santa Rosa Parkway in Lakewood Village when the dogs, a male and a female, attacked him, knocking him to the ground. Wiley reported that the male dog bit him on the right outer thigh. He...

Escaped pit bulls struck fear in the hearts of Stansbury Park children Friday as they walked home from school. Five children were injured in the attacks, though none of the injuries were fatal. Both dogs were shot dead in a showdown with sheriff's deputies after several witnesses reported the attacks. "[The dogs] started traveling and made their way to the golf course," Tooele County Sheriff Frank Park said. "There they met a 13 year old and a 6 year old by the golf course ... They were cutting across the golf course after school ... The dogs charged them and...

IRWINDALE - A 6-year-old boy suffered lacerations to his face and torso when a pit bull attacked him Wednesday in the back yard of a home, police said. Police officers killed the dog in an effort to free the boy from the attack, said Irwindale Sgt. John Falone. The boy, whose name was not released, was airlifted to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and is expected to recover, said a relative who identified herself as the boy's aunt. The boy's father, reached at Childrens Hospital, would not comment. Falone said the boy was attacked while playing with his sister in the...

Pit bulls on the loose went on a rampage Thursday and terrorized a southwest Philadelphia neighborhood. The dogs escaped from their backyard at 53rd Street and Cedar Avenue and ran several blocks through the neighborhood, attacking several people. Their rampage ended with a policeman shooting one of the dogs.

(AP) A woman whose three pit bulls fatally mauled an 82-year-old neighbor as she walked a small dog was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison. Deanna Large, 37, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in December for the death of Dorothy Sullivan, who was attacked by the roaming dogs last March. Sullivan had been walking her Shih Tzu, Buttons, in her front yard in Partlow when the dogs attacked and killed both.