An Irvine dog trainer who operated Happy K9 Academy was convicted of killing 11 dogs by keeping them in small crates in a hot van and lying to the pets’ owners about the deaths, authorities said.
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Seamus Bozeman
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
Though crates, boxes and moving vans will not be present, the first day of July is like moving day in college football.
Multiple trees of the yew species are vying for the rank of oldest, but scientists have trouble dating them because the trees split into several different hollowed-out trunks that make one tree appear to be several different trees.
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Karina Zaiets,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
Every Brazilian fan — in Philadelphia to watch their national team play Haiti on Friday at the World Cup — that stopped for a snapshot or a selfie with the 9-foot-11, 1,300-pound beast left the statue dressed in only his bronze trunks and boots.
The men found information on target businesses and used pry bars and sledgehammers to break into buildings and open safes that stored pull-tab proceeds, the complaint states.
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Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
28 May 2026
The safes had been seized in a pot shop raid, a source within the sheriff’s office said.
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Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2026
Accepted items include packing material, cups, clamshells, meat trays, egg cartons and ice chests.
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Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2026
Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
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