| Inmates, dogs get new lease on life at prison
Two Mesa women are saving dogs and improving prisoners, bringing out the human side of murderers from Alaska and Hawaii with long sentences from bloody crimes committed decades ago. Shannon Holstein, of Kokopelli Dog and Puppy Training, and Kathy Swaney, of Valley of the Sun Dog Rescue, are on a mission to save dogs from euthanasia, making less popular breeds and mutts more adoptable through extensive training by inmates at the Red Rock Correctional Center in Eloy. "It gives them purpose," Holstein said about the inmates. "It gives the dogs a second chance. These dogs in eight weeks get far more training than they would at home." .
New Web scam: Free puppy, you just pay for shipping
Puppy scams are popping up in Arizona online and print classified ads, where the seller appears to be local and offers free English bulldogs or Yorkshire terriers. But when contacted by e-mail, the seller says he or she is in Africa on a religious mission and promises to ship the dog overnight for a few hundred dollars. After getting the money, the seller never ships a puppy.
A similar scenario is playing out in other states and countries, prompting consumer warnings Tuesday from the Better Business Bureau and the American Kennel Club. .
Police and Fire Briefs for May 30, 2007
A 19-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy are behind bars after customers and employees at a Smoothie King in Central were robbed Monday, an East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesman said. Logan Edwards, 6697 Audusson Drive, was booked into Parish Prison on two counts of armed robbery. The boy was booked into the Juvenile Detention Center on the same counts. Wearing a mask and armed with a rifle, a man entered the store at 14455AA Wax Road and demand money from people inside, Fred Raiford said. He then ran around to the back of the store and left in a silver Honda Civic in which a boy was waiting. Deputies caught up with the pair down the road, one immediately and the other after a brief foot chase, Raiford said. Three men, juvenile held after burglaryThree men and a male juvenile were arrested Thursday, accused of burglarizing a residence earlier in the day and shooting at the homeowner who confronted them.
Rita Coolidge
That's what the rather meagre audience which only just filled about a third of the Corn Exchange to see Rita Coolidge perform asked. The pair said they were carpenters from Cumbria who had toured with Marti Pellow and Paul Young. Their songs were well sung, fun and quite original (the first being about the pair crashing into a roundabout in Coventry) and after 40 minutes and an interval it was time for an hour and a half of Rita. Her singing was the deep husky soft Nina Simone-like voice she is well known for despite the hitches. It perhaps took a little while to get the audience going who had perhaps wanted to hear some more of her classics instead of new songs from a jazz album she is promoting. It was the music from her days with Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker that really got the audience going, The Way You Do The Things You Do - only to be knocked down with an American national anthem sung in Cherokee.
Boxer Dog Receives Bravery Award
Boxer dog Cally recieved a PDSA Commendation yesterday (29 May) after she led her owner, Nick Hurle, to injured farm manager, Peter Gurney, who was pinned down by two half-tonne bales of silage at Pinner Park Farm.
The special presentation was held at Pinner PDSA shop on Bridge Street on Tuesday 29 May at 4.30pm.
Recounting the story, Nick Hurle, 60, said: "Last March I was taking my usual morning walk with Cally near Pinner Park Farm when she ran off. When she came back, she insisted that I follow her. Suddenly, I could hear a man crying out in pain and saw large plastic bales, which are normally stacked neatly, scattered across the farmyard. I ran over and realised he had been crushed by two of the bales. If it wasn't for Cally I would never have found him. I quickly rang 999."
Farm Manager, Peter Gurney, 60, said: "I was using my tractor to bring the silage down to feed the cows.
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