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Pit Bulldog Joins Holiday Family Brawl Wed Dec 29, 5:47 PM ET Strange News - AP ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. - A family fight turned uglier when their pet pit bulldog joined the brawl. Christina Lyman told authorities she was trying to break up a Christmas evening altercation between her brother and sister, Nicholas Lyman, 19, and Yvonne Lyman, 22, both of Indianapolis. That's when the family owned pit bull entered the fray and "turned on all three parties," according to Cpl. Chad Gillenwater of the Hawkins County Sheriff's Department. Arriving at the home, Gillenwater said he found dents in the siding,...

Pit Bull Attacks Baby, Is Thrown Off Roof NEW YORK -- A pit bull attacked and bit a 3-month-old baby at a Brooklyn apartment building on Sunday before a man threw the dog off the roof to its death, witnesses said. The attack, which seriously injured the baby, occurred around 5 p.m., when a woman took the baby to visit friends at an apartment in the building. "The dog got jealous and started jumping for the baby," witness Emmanuel Santiago said. "It caught the baby in the head." A man grabbed the baby and put it on a bed,...