Turkey’s four million stray dogs are inseparable from the idea of the country itself. But maybe not for much longer. Related Posts New Jersey parents of Tennessee college student killed by stray bullet say laws ‘protect’ repeat criminals Jillian Ludwig, an 18-year-old freshman at Belmont University in Nashville, was jogging in a public park just…
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News Elderly woman struck by stray bullet outside her Brooklyn apartment
An 84-year-old woman was hospitalized on Monday evening after being struck by a stray bullet just outside her home. The victim, Althea Lawson, was sitting on her walker outside her Flatbush Gardens development at Brooklyn and Foster Avenues around 6:45 p.m. when she was struck by the bullet in her left arm, according to the…
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News Virginia father detained in Turks and Caicos for stray ammo pleads guilty
A Virginia man has pleaded guilty to one count of possession of ammunition in Turks and Caicos after airport security found stray bullets in his luggage as he prepared to fly home last month. Five Americans have been arrested and detained since February for possessing ammunition on the islands under a new ordinance that requires…
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News Alaska man dies from novel animal-borne virus, likely contracted from stray cat
The first fatality from Alaskapox, a type of orthopoxvirus, has been reported on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. State officials released a bulletin Feb. 9 detailing that an elderly man contracted the virus in Sept. 2023, likely from an infected stray cat who scratched him. The man, whose immune system had been suppressed by cancer…
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News US National Park Service paws to remove hundreds of stray cats from historic tourist spot
Hundreds of stray cats that roam a historic seaside tourist area of Puerto Rico’s capital where they are considered both a delight and a nuisance will be removed over the coming year, under a plan unveiled Tuesday by the U.S. National Park Service. The agency said it will contract an animal welfare organization to remove…
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News New Jersey parents of Tennessee college student killed by stray bullet say laws ‘protect’ repeat criminals
Jillian Ludwig, an 18-year-old freshman at Belmont University in Nashville, was jogging in a public park just blocks away from campus on a sunny afternoon last Tuesday when a stray bullet struck her in the head, killing her. “Her roommate said she had been going [jogging] three to four times a week,” the New Jersey…
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