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Pittsburgh Steelers fan charged with killing puppy before game By Calvin Palmer
A Pittsburgh Steelers fan is in jail today after allegedly kicking his girlfriend’s puppy to death because it would not behave before the start of yesterday’s televised game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
William Woodson, 22, of Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, has been charged with animal cruelty and is being held on $25,000 bail.
A witness called [...]
Knox’s hatred of room mate triggered ‘an unstoppable crescendo of violence’ By Calvin Palmer
The hatred American Amanda Knox harbored for British exchange student and room mate Meredith Kercher led to “an unstoppable crescendo of violence” that resulted in the British girl’s murder, an Italian court heard today.
Chief prosecutor Giuliano Mignini summed up the prosecution’s case in a trial that has lasted almost a year.
Knox, 22, a [...]
Man weighing 800 pounds dies after spending seven months in a recliner By Calvin Palmer
Firefighters and EMS personnel had to dismantle the chair of an obese South Carolina man after he became literally welded to the recliner in which he had spent the past seven months.
Claude Daniel Tillman Webb, 33, of Greenwood, hurt his knee in March and was sent home from hospital because he did not [...]
Student out collecting frogs shot dead by hunter By Calvin Palmer
A Virginia college student out collecting frogs for a biology class was shot dead yesterday by a hunter who mistook her and her classmates for deer.
A Ferrum College spokeswoman says three students were collecting frogs yesterday afternoon along a trail, a mile west of campus.
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries said [...]