Free Republic

A woman on Chicago’s South Side is sharing her story in hopes to find her beloved puppy after it was stolen from her at gunpoint. She said her Cane Corso was stolen at gunpoint Wednesday night in the city's East Chatham neighborhood. “He’s a hyper little two-month-old puppy, dark gray coat, big blue eyes,” the victim said. “He’s just the sweetest. He whimpers when he sees me because he knows who I am.” Just days after receiving him as a birthday gift, the owner of the two-month-old Cane Corso is now making an emotional plea to find him. “You can...

A metro area woman said her car and dog were stolen by individuals experiencing homelessness. “They took off with my car and my dog,” Julie Oliva said. Oliva said in late March, she stopped to help a man experiencing homelessness. She admits to letting him inside her Alfa Romeo to warm up. Soon after that man got out of her car, she said she noticed her cell phone was missing. Oliva said she then made contact with a group of people, also experiencing homelessness, who claimed to know the man in question. What can legally be done with a meth-contaminated...

April 28, 2005 Ears Plugged? Keep Eyes Open, Subway's IPod Users Are Told By SEWELL CHAN llison Emmett, 26, a lawyer who lives in the West Village, has rules for riding the subway while listening to her iPod. "You keep it in your bag," she said. "You keep your bag in front of you. You keep your hand on it."Sarit Sela, 27, an administrator at Goldman Sachs who lives in Astoria, Queens, said she kept her iPod in a handbag, secured by a clip. "When I'm on the subway, I try not to change the music," she said.Both women...