Showing 113 posts from September 2009
The team may be named after a symbol for freedom, but the Philadelphia Eagles apparently don’t want fans practicing it.
Eagles security staff squashed a suburban fan’s freedom of speech at the gate before Sunday’s game, telling her she couldn’t enter the arena unless she covered up the anti-Michael Vick sentiments expressed on her T-shirt.
Kori Martin, [...]
Sticky has a new home.
The cat that was duct-taped and dumped in a North Philly yard, was adopted by a family Tuesday afternoon, according to Pennsylvania SPCA officials.
The family, which asked to remain anonymous, was selected out of nearly 100 animal lovers who had expressed interest in giving the gray cat a home.
PSPCA officers arrested [...]
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick spoke from behind the pulpit of a Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. yesterday — the latest in a series of talks aimed at helping to stop dogfighting and earning himself redemption.
With a line of police standing against the back wall, Michael Vick clutched the sides of a pulpit and told the crowd [...]
The Oregon man who used a dog shock collar on his children was sentenced Monday to three years of supervised probation.
Under the sentence, Todd Marcum is not allowed to have contact with his four children without approval of the Department of Human Services and his parole officer.
Detectives said Marcum admitted to putting an electronic dog collar [...]
In the aftermath of a 2004 tsunami on the coast of Kenya, a young hippo was found stranded on a reef, with no mother in sight.
Villagers worked together to rescue the 600-pound hippo, and transported him to Haller Park, an animal sanctuary about 50 miles away in Mombasa.
The hippo was placed in an enclosure with [...]
