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Dogs attacked four children severely injuring three of them Saturday night east of Colorado Springs. Their bite wounds were so severe that they required surgery. The El Paso County Sheriff's Office said a woman went to check on animals and property for her employer in Rush, about 40 miles east of Colorado Springs along Highway 94. The woman had her five children with her in the car. They're all under age 18. A sheriff's office spokesperson said the woman went into the barn and then she heard screams. She found that three Great Danes had attacked four of the five...

The Chinese restaurant owner mauled by three pit bulls as he passed out menus in Brooklyn said from his hospital bed that he is lucky to be alive. "They tried to kill me," Xiu Ming Li said Monday from his third-floor hospital bed at Kings County Hospital. Blood seeped from fresh white gauze covering bite marks on his arms and legs. His right ear - where he lost an earlobe - was also wrapped in gauze. His wife sat at his bedside, her eyes full of tears. Li, 52, owner of the Jing Lung Chinese Restaurant on Nostrand Ave. in...