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A Detroit couple is sentenced after their dogs killed a father of 6
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit couple was sentenced Friday after pleading no contest that their three dogs escaped and fatally mauled a 35-year-old father who was walking home from a bus stop. A judge ordered Roy Goodman to serve 2 1/2 to 15 years in prison, according to the Wayne County...
A missing surfer in Australia is believed dead in a shark attack, police say
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A surfer missing in Australia is believed to have died in a shark attack, authorities said Friday, as they searched the waters where the man disappeared. The 28-year-old was in the sea at a popular surf beach in South Australia where another man was...
Burt, the huge Australian crocodile who had a cameo in ‘Crocodile Dundee,’ dies at 90
Burt, the huge crocodile that rose to fame with a cameo in the movie “Crocodile Dundee” and continued to impress visitors with his fiery temper and commanding presence, has died. Burt died over the weekend, the Crocosaurus Cove reptile aquarium in Darwin, Australia, said. He was...
3 dogs that fatally mauled their owner in a San Diego park are euthanized
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Humane Society said it has euthanized three dogs that fatally mauled their owner last week at a neighborhood park while horrified onlookers tried to help him. A second person was hospitalized with bite injuries following the attack Friday afternoon...
Two family dogs kill a 5-year-old girl at her home near Los Angeles
COVINA, Calif. (AP) — Two family dogs attacked and killed a 5-year-old girl at her Southern California home over the weekend, authorities said. Deputies responding around noon Sunday found the injured child in the backyard of the house in Covina, east of Los Angeles, according to...
Colorado officials are hunting a coyote that attacked and injured a 4-year-old girl
DENVER (AP) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are hunting a coyote that attacked a 4-year-old girl on Thanksgiving after she mistook it for a dog crouching behind a tree, the agency announced over the weekend. The girl and another child approached the coyote in northern...
A lion cub evacuated from Lebanon to a South African sanctuary escapes airstrikes and abuse
BEIRUT (AP) — When Sara first arrived at her rescuers' home, she was sick, tired, and was covered in ringworms and signs of abuse all over her little furry body. After spending two months in a small Beirut apartment with an animal rights group, the four-and-half-month-old lion cub...
Ian Botham saved by Ashes rival from crocodile infested waters after fishing mishap
SYDNEY (AP) — England cricketing great Ian Botham was saved by his former Ashes rival Merv Hughes after a fall into crocodile-infested waters while on a fishing trip in northern Australia. Botham, along with Hughes and a group of friends, was on a boat when the accident happened,...
Florida surfer is bit by a shark at the same beach he was bitten at 11 years ago
STUART, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is recovering from a shark bite just over a decade after being bitten at the same beach. Cole Taschman, 28, was surfing with two friends at Bathtub Beach in Stuart on the state's east coast last Friday afternoon when the attack occurred, Treasure...
A pack of dogs killed a man behind a house in New York
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A 59-year-old man was killed in a “horrific” attack by a pack of dogs in a back yard next to a house where two dozen of the animals were kept, police said Thursday. Officers responding to a call found eight or nine mixed-breed pit bulls attacking James...
