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Business people - June 9
Small Business Development Center of the Eastern Panhandle MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Christina Lundberg, business coach and center manager at the Small Business Development Center of the Eastern Panhandle in Martinsburg, recently was named Minority...
Tags: Public Relations, Media Industry, Sports, Religion and Belief, Financial Planning
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Bettie J. Houser, 92
Bettie Jane Houser, 92, of Boonsboro, Md., and formerly of Cumberland, Md., and Elgin, Texas, passed away on Sunday, April 14, 2013, at the Williamsport Retirement Village. Born Sept. 7, 1920, in Boonsboro, she was the daughter of the late Joseph...Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Tamarac, Plantation, Human Interest, American Legion
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Annapolis legislation seeks to overturn court ruling on pit bulls
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comLegislation introduced this week in the Maryland General Assembly seeks to overturn a precedent set by a Maryland Court of Appeals ruling last year that concluded pit bulls were dangerous dogs. The court ruling, which also held pit bull owners...Tags: Rentals, Animal Attacks, Condos and Houses, Maryland General Assembly, Annapolis
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Falling Waters man pleads guilty to 10 counts of animal cruelty
matthew.umstead@herald-mail.comA Falling Waters, W.Va., man accused of mistreating more than 130 dogs and several cats pleaded guilty Thursday in Berkeley County Magistrate Court to 10 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty. Rocky Del Trolio, 55, was placed on two years of unsupervised...Tags: Justice System, Craigslist, Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Weight
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Name your 'purr-fect' adoption price for humane society cat, kitten
The Humane Society of Harford County has introduced a new way to adopt a fun-loving feline - the "Pick Your Purr-Fect Price" cat adoption program, in which the humane society's intention is to unite even more fabulous felines with new families. Last...Tags: Social Issues
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LETTER: Hens Need Our Help
Many Connecticut residents are unaware that horrific factory farms exist in the eastern part of our state, where barbaric "battery cages" for egg-laying hens are used to house millions of birds. Here, hens are crammed into wire cages, stacked one above... -
Horse slaughterhouse accuses USDA of IRS tactics
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A southeastern New Mexico company's plans to convert a cattle plant into a horse slaughterhouse has hit another roadblock, this time over an environmental dispute that the company's attorney blames on the Obama administration...Tags: Justice System, Water Pollution, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Issues, Internal Revenue Service
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U.S. proposes new protections for captive chimps
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed extending tough new protections for chimpanzees in captivity, a shift that would place strict limits on primates' role as human surrogates in biomedical research. In reclassifying chimps as...
Tags: Lincoln Park Zoo, National Government, Medical Research, Government, Diseases and Illnesses
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Government moves to wrap up gray wolf recovery
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal officials are declaring victory in their four-decade campaign to rescue the gray wolf, a predator the government once considered a nuisance and tried to exterminate. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on...
Tags: National Government, Government, Environmental Issues, Wildlife, Endangered Species
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Which comes first: California's egg rule, or everyone else's?
WASHINGTON — Congress this year will deal with a host of profound issues: A confrontation over raising the nation's debt limit. Budget battles that will determine whether more cuts are made in government services. And the most ambitious attempt to...
Tags: Justice System, Arnold Schwarzenegger, National Government, Jeff Denham, Government
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Marijuana for pets
Associated PressLOS ANGELES -- Until she introduced “magic cheese” to her sick and aging bulldog, Laura Bugni-Daniel watched him suffer for two years. He’d spend his days lying down or throwing up. Today, at age 12, he plays like a puppy through the...Tags: Pain, Medical Marijuana Therapy, University of California, Davis, Pets, North Carolina State University
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LETTER: Shouldn't Change Status Of Animals As Property
House Bill 6690 allows an advocate to be appointed to represent the interests of an animal during a cruelty trial. I absolutely believe that no animal should be treated in a cruel manner, and that those who harm animals should be held accountable for...Tags: Connecticut General Assembly, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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