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The cases against the owners of three pit bulls that attacked a 6-year-old girl are going to Circuit Court. District Judge Michael Klaeren found this morning there was probable cause to believe Brian Keith Nace, 35, and his girlfriend, Jasmine Bailey, 19, kept dangerous animals that caused serious injury. Their dogs reportedly played “tug of war” with Tyah Norris the afternoon of Aug. 24 inside Nace and Bailey’s fenced yard at 118 Mantle Ave. in Blackman Township, testified Animal Control Officer Kathie Chapin. As a result, township public safety Officer Randy Hengesbaugh could not distinguish any of Tyah’s facial features...

JACKSONVILLE, NC - The parents of a baby whose toes were chewed off by a pit bull puppy will serve the next 8 to 10 months in jail. Robbie Jenkins, and her boyfriend, Tremayne Spillman, both entered guilty pleads to felony negligent child abuse, inflicting serious injury and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Spillman also plead to felony larceny. The couple told lawmen they were watching a friend's 12-week-old pit bull puppy, and while they slept, the dog chewed the toes off the four-month-old baby. The puppy was put down and the baby was put in foster care...

Saturday, November 07, 2009 Mother Says Pit Bull Owners Want Child's Memorial Removed LEVERITT'S CHAPEL -- The owners of two pit bulls that mauled to death a 10-year-old Leveritt's Chapel boy demanded a memorial to the child be removed, according to his mother. Serenia Clinton will attend a brief ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the spot of her son's death across from his school on County Road 133 to witness removal of the memorial. The memorial started out as a cross made of poster board with Justin Clinton's name on it and signed by his fifth-grade classmates at Leveritt's...

Nearly a year after a 90-year-old Port Richmond veteran was torn apart by a pair of pit bulls in his backyard, his family is being victimized by beasts of a different sort -- vandals who have pillaged the house vacant since his death. In the months since Henry Piotrowski died of the wounds he suffered in the July 1 mauling, an intruder or intruders ransacked the John Street home where he'd lived from age 3, stealing the stove, overturning furniture and using his bed as a toilet. Last weekend, teenagers got their kicks by jumping on top of his Saturn,...

-snip- About a year ago, Mr. Poplawski stopped working to have knee surgery, according to Ms. Devine. Later he took to walking two pit bull mixes, now 7 months old, that the family adopted from the Animal Rescue League of Western Pennsylvania. After the shootings, city Animal Control returned them to the shelter. Charlotte Grimme, the shelter's executive director, described them as healthy and good-tempered. But it was one of those dogs urinating on the carpet that apparently prompted the argument between Mr. Poplawski and his mother that spawned her 911 call and brought unsuspecting police into an apparent ambush....

ANGLETON — A 17-year-old Angleton man has been charged with cruelty to animals after he allegedly tied up a stray cat and let the pit bull he got for his birthday tear the cat apart while he videotaped the incident. The video ended up on the popular Web site MySpace after he gave the video to friends, but it was quickly yanked. Paul Miguel will probably be booked today, Angleton police detective Sgt. Kirk Coleman said. The dog, a brown and white female named Brook, was seized by agents from the Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,...