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Tyler attorney and former state district judge Cynthia Stevens Kent is asking two Texas legislators to push a bill outlawing the ownership of pit bulls and-or pit bull mixed dogs in Texas, and to make the possession of the breed a third-degree felony. Mrs. Kent hopes Sen. Kevin Eltife, R-Tyler, and Rep. Chuck Hopson, R-Henderson, will sponsor the bill and put in front of the next legislative session. She wants the bill named Justin's Law, after 10-year-old Justin Clinton who was killed in 2009 by pit bulls in Rusk County. “My client, Serenia Clinton of Rusk County, and I ask...

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...