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  • 'We are all shooters': A peek into gang's violent drug operations Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:05AMThe arrest of more than 20 reputed gang members Aug. 12 following an 11-month investigation into a West Side heroin market sheds some light on a notorious street gang and its violent operational methods.
  • Weekly planner Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:02AMADULT EDUCATION Hunter Education Safety Course, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday , Sept. 17; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, Lemon Lake County Park, 6322 W. 133rd Ave., Crown Point, adults encouraged to take class with their young hunters, registration required, 947-7275AN EVENING OUTMovies in the Park, at dusk tonight, Marquette Park, 6769 Oak Ave., Gary, movie is Michael Jackson 's "This Is It ...
  • Salmonella contamination drives retail sales of pasteurized shell eggs Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:33AMConsumer demand for safe eggs has driven retail sales of pasteurized shell eggs up by more than 50% since Aug. 16 when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended their use to prevent illness from egg-related Salmonella Enteritidis, announced National Pasteurized Eggs (NPE).
  • Evergreen State Fair results Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 2:09AMObedience Champion, Kendell Erickson, Snohomish; Rally Obedience Champion, Colby Pfost, Lynnwood; Rally Obedience Champion, Caroline Beebe, Snohomish; Rally Obedience Champion, Alix Vorkapich, Sultan; Rally Obedience Reserve Champion, Zachaiah Sarey, Arlington; Rally Obedience Reserve Champion, Chloe Smith, Edmonds; Rally Obedience Reserve Champion, Heather Rekow, Redmond; Showmanship Champion ...
  • How much is that doggie? Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 9:27AMPam Blackburn is an avowed animal lover, and opening her new pet store on Wednesday gives her a chance to share her passion with others.
  • Cockatoo keeps Charlie on call Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 10:51PMCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- "Charlie. Charlie. Charlie!" She calls for him constantly. (Or should that be caws.) She lives on a houseboat on the Kanawha River. People hear her calling and wonder whats going on. "Charlie. Charlie. Charlie!&qu...
  • TOWNSHEND AUCTION GALLERY RTE. 30 TOWNSHEND VT. (15 MILES NORTH OF BRATTLEBORO) SATURDAY, AUGUST 28TH 9:30AM Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 11:16PMA weekly newspaper serving the antiques and arts industry, collectors, and institutions. New information each week on antiques shows and auctions around the country and antiques dealer listings.
  • Local egg rancher talks safety, business after recall Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 6:58PMWhile some have shied away from buying eggs, an egg ranch outside Lubbock has seen a little more business since the recall.
  • Owl rescue becomes a team effort Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 5:24PMJose Silva, a Winnetka Park District groundskeeper was cutting the grass at Skokie Playfield about 7 a.m. Aug. 20 when something grabbed his attention. A female great horned owl had become trapped in the netting of a batting cage, located behind the A.C. Nielsen Tennis Facility, 530 Hibbard Road. The owl's left leg was ensnared and the bird was frantically flapping her wings, struggling to free ...
  • Egg Recall Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 4:13PMShould factory farms exist?
  • Weekly Top Five: Strasburg, Bautista and Tiger and Elin, Oh My! Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 2:56PMAlmost every week Stephen Douglas (CRM) and Tim Ryan (TSH) will take you on a journey through links and pictures related to the previous days. Sometimes, we’re too hungover or too-on-vacation to compile a post such as this. In that case you’ll go without it and be forced to use the previous page option to [...]
  • Egg recall heats up debate over caging chicken Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 8:29AMA recall of a half-billion eggs from two mega-farms in Iowa is stoking a fierce controversy over whether factory farming is inherently unsafe - and a battle in California over a 2008 voter initiative banning the standard industry practice of packing hens so... Iowa - California - Chicken - Agriculture - Factory farming
  • Video: Reinventing the wheel - and then some Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 4:08AMIn the quest for alternative energy, there’s a source many may have overlooked.
  • Bears find way into city Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 2:32AMA bear cub is going on a bit of a road trip after wandering into a north-side Thunder Bay neighbourhood Thursday.
  • Fair friends forever Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 2:16AMWELLINGTON — Mackenzie Calfo, a tall, skinny girl with long brown hair, knelt next to her turkey’s cage, trying to get the bird to back away from the cage door.
  • Pondering Public Sculpture in Manhattan Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 6:04PMA few exhibitions around Manhattan this summer afford an opportunity to contemplate what public sculpture should do.
  • The Criminal Behind the Salmonella-Infected Eggs Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 6:02PMWhen Jack DeCoster was a high school sophomore, his father died and DeCoster inherited 100 chickens. By the time he graduated high school, the hard-working 4-H Club member had 2,500 laying hens in rural Maine. Twenty years after that, he was the undisputed brown egg king of New England, with more than 2.8 million laying hens and annual sales of $35 million. But when Myron Levin, a reporter for ...
  • Pet of the week Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 4:20AMIrving is a sweet, affectionate, and very loving miniature Schnauzer. He was rescued from a puppy mill in Missouri almost one month ago.
  • Santa Barbara Zoo launches smartphone technology Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 4:12AMZoo guests with Smartphones can watch YouTube videos of the animals as they tour the exhibits. “Most of our guests can’t read,” joked the zoo’s director of public relations, Julia McHugh, pointing to the several small children playing near the entrance waterfall.
  • Summit Up 8-26-10: Doggone cheesy Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 1:11AMGood morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that's going to the dogs today because ... (sound of record needle being scratched across the disc as all the gnarly biker dudes in the bar look up) Sorry! Some evil dork snuck onto our computer and wrote that horrible old cliche about "going to the dogs" because s/he learned we were going to have a bit of a dog theme going ...
  • A Bronx Hoarder’s Painstaking Bid to Find the Floor Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 11:28PMA Bronx man who had turned his small dwelling into a veritable urban junkyard gets some help cleaning up.
  • Montgomery County Animal Watch Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 11:00PMThese were among the cases received by the Montgomery County Animal Services Division. For recorded information on Montgomery County Animal Shelter hours and location, adoption and licensing procedures, rabies clinics and low-cost neutering, call 240-773-5960. United States - Montgomery - Counties - Maryland - Ohio
  • Pine River Patriots Tea Party Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 9:07PMMERRILL - With election day about 10-weeks away, people in the Northwoods gathered Wednesday to speak out against both parties who they say are taking away Americans' freedoms.
  • New store offers gently used pet supplies Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 6:24PMPeople in Clintonville, in resident Tina Probasco's opinion, love their pets and care about the environment.
  • When hawks attack Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 2:51PMBullfighting. Running with the bulls. Cleaning out a wild cat's cage. Any one of these activities could — and probably should — get you attacked...
  • US Humane Society Praises UFood Grill for Hatching New Sustainability, Animal Welfare Initiative. Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 4:06AMBOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UFood Restaurant Group Inc. (OTCBB: UFFC) announced today that it has joined the growing national “sustainable food” movement through a new The Humane Society of the United States initiative that involves switching to cage-free eggs. Click here to view the Video News Release from UFood Restaurant Group, Inc. http://videoupdates.ceolive.co/ufood-grill ...
  • US Humane Society Praises UFood Grill for Hatching New Sustainability, Animal Welfare Initiative. Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 4:00AMBOSTON----UFood Restaurant Group Inc. announced today that it has joined the growing national “sustainable food” movement through a new The Humane Society of the United States initiative that involves switching to cage-free eggs.
  • Chances of recovery good for injured hawk Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 2:51AMThis article has been read 0 times. William Matyuf initially called borough police Saturday after hearing the bird in the woods near his home on Pine Alley. Sgt. Don Cross and Officer Nate Terling looked for the bird without success. Matyuf called police Sunday after hearing it again.
  • Anne Frank's Chestnut Tree Collapses Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 8:33PMA 150-year-old chestnut tree in a courtyard in the center of Amsterdam that gave diarist Anne Frank comfort collapsed on Monday due to fungus and a moth infestation.
  • Event: Basement Birds @ The Forum, Melbourne (14/08/2010) Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 5:11PMAn undersold venue hosts Basement Birds for the first, and probably last Melbourne gig they will perform.
  • Fowl go from coop to cooker Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 8:29AMBefore Saturday’s Yard to Skillet workshop, most attendees would have said preparing a chicken meant preheating an oven and selecting the right spices. With a butcher knife clenched in their hands, however, they learned it meant something entirely different.
  • Music, cars, food and games put Athol Daze among finest of fairs - Sun, 22 Aug 2010 PST Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 2:13AMSunshine bathed the parade route as the city of Athol celebrated its 101st birthday. As always, a large gathering of spectators lined the parade route where a myriad of entries proudly marched past. A pickup band consisting of members of the Timberlake/Northern Lakes/BLM firefighting units marched to a first-place prize in the band category. Close in second place was the always popular Albeni ...
  • Attention students: The Register wants you! Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 1:56AMNEW HAVEN — As two city schools prepare to undergo major transformations under the district’s sweeping school change initiative, the New Haven Register is seeking volunteers to be followed throughout the year.
  • Waiting on the wings Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 11:16PMSam White has been a man of nature all his life. For 13 years he has lived at Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Community, but he hasn't let that stop him from enjoying the great outdoors or the creatures in it.White takes care of monarch butterflies from the time they are eggs growing on their mi...
  • Consumer Report:Tips for Trimming Wedding Costs Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 10:31PMby CBS3’s Jim Donovan for KYW Newsradio 1060 With the average wedding these days costing around $28,000, a growing number of web sites are offering used items for your I-do’s, On sites like preownedweddingdresses.com and IdonowIdon’t.com, you can find pretty much anything to put more value into your vows. Anja Winikka: “Wedding dresses, accessories like [...]
  • Exotic bird returned to owners Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 11:10AMTiffany, the 16-year-old Macaw that flew away from its owner's east-end home Wednesday night, has returned home.
  • KSFY Action News: Breaking News, Weather and Community |Free range family farm raises cage-free chickens Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 1:13PMThe veritable nationwide scavenger hunt to determine where eggs tainted with salmonella have been distributed has some consumers looking for alternative, local, and sustainable food sources. One Canistota producer is doing things differently.
  • Birdnapping stumps authorities in Toronto Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 12:42PMTORONTO, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- A macaw is missing in Toronto, and police say two men kidnapped the tropical bird. Police - Toronto - Law - Law Enforcement - Canada
  • Juliette Lewis Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 12:38PMNorah Jones ' upcoming ...Featuring compilation will include collaborations with the likes of Foo Fighters, OutKast, Q-Tip, Belle & Sebastian, Talib Kweli, Ryan Adams, Dolly Parton and even the late Ray Charles.
  • YOUR COMMENTS Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 11:12AMQ: I have two parakeets (budgies) that now live in separate cages because one bird attacked the other badly enough that I saw blood in the cage. Can you please explain this behavior? They used to get along.
  • Macaw thieves sought by police Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 9:57AMToronto Police say they are looking for two men they believe stole a macaw named Tiffany in the city's east end.
  • As a baseball fan, she's a natural Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 9:52AMWell into her 99th year, Martha Jackson Foster has banked as many memory bytes as your average office PC (although she readily concedes her recall function leaves something to be desired).
  • Two men steal exotic bird that escaped owner for tree Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 9:10AMToronto Police are asking for the public's assistance locating an exotic bird that escaped from its owner and was then later stolen.
  • Two men steal exotic bird that escaped its owner Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 9:10AMToronto Police are asking for the public's assistance locating an exotic bird that escaped from its owner and was then later stolen.
  • Exotic bird stolen in Toronto Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 8:48AMTORONTO — Police are on the hunt for a stolen bird. Tiffany, a 16-year-old macaw, was last seen around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Ferris Rd. and Squires Ave. area.
  • Exotic bird stolen in Toronto Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 8:26AMPolice are on the hunt for a stolen bird. Tiffany, a 16-year-old macaw, was last seen around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
  • StreetBeat - Aug. 20 - Exotic Bird Stolen In East End Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 8:17AMPolice say two men approached the macaw in a tree, put it in a cage and took off near Victoria Park and St. Clair.
  • Exotic bird stolen in T.O. Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 8:01AMToronto Police are on the hunt for a stolen macaw.
  • Racing pigeon drops in at home of Myersville couple Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 1:13AMMYERSVILLE -- A Myersville couple received an unlikely visitor last week when a homing pigeon landed on their deck and mesmerized them for three days
  • Cheating reaps big benefits for finches Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 11:41PMLying and cheating on your partner pays dividends if you are a Gouldian finch, according to Australian researchers.