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WACO (September 16, 2013)--A man who tried to eat a family’s dog after a bad trip on a synthetic marijuana drug pleaded guilty Monday to animal cruelty charges. Michael Terron Daniel, 22, elected to have his punishment decided by a jury and panel selection is set to begin Tuesday morning in 19th District Court. Daniel pleaded guilty Monday to cruelty to a non-livestock animal in a bizarre incident on June 14, 2012, when a man who claimed to be on the synthetic drug K-2 chased a neighbor while barking and growling like a dog and then attacked the dog, which...

ITTSBURGH -- A teenage boy is on a ventilator after his parents said he smoked what he thought was marijuana. Ray and Tonya Rice's 13-year-old son Brandon was a healthy soon-to-be eighth-grader at South Moreland Middle School. The Rices said in mid-June he was having trouble breathing and said he thought he was having a heart attack. "He was telling me that he couldn't feel his hands and his legs," said Ray Rice. "He said he couldn't breathe. He was vomiting and had a high fever." His parents said following his sudden illness he ended up in intensive care at...