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"I'm not in the corner with those who want to close the [Fort Bragg] shelter. It's not feasible financially or for the animals," Sheriff Tom Allman told a gathering of animal welfare advocates last week.
Assisted suicide is still illegal in most of the United States.
WASHINGTON (BP)--The man who shot to death a pro-life demonstrator outside a Michigan high school has been convicted of first-degree murder. Harland Drake, 34, of Owosso, Mich., was found guilty by a jury in the Sept. 11, 2009, shooting deaths of James Pouillon and Michael Fouss.
I was walking to the garage one morning last week when thelargest and densest snowflakes I've ever seen were falling from thesky. No, not just falling. They were in a suicide pact rammingtheir way to earth. The minute they hit the concrete they puddledinto a slippery mess.
HEBER — A nonprofit group has offered to end animal death via carbon monoxide poisoning in this rural city by raising...
A non profit group has offered to end animal death via carbon monoxide poisoning in this rural city by raising and...
NEWARK -- The Licking County Animal Shelter will begin phasing out euthanasia by carbon monoxide by the end of this month, Licking County commissioners announced Thursday.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 18 (UPI) -- A 31-year-old Swedish woman who has spent the majority of her life on a respirator is demanding the right to die with dignity, a letter she dictated says.
In a bizarre twist on the Internet suicide pacts that first emerged in Japan in 2003, the Japanese appear to be turning to the web to recruit hitmen, according to statistics published Thursday.
Three weeks after the suicide of two Interboro School District girls, another student is found dead.
( University of York ) A major international conference next week will take a fresh perspective on one of the darkest episodes in English medieval history -- the mass suicide and murder of Jewish men, women and children in York in 1190.
Three weeks after the suicide of two Interboro School District girls, another student kills himself.
NEWARK -- The Licking County Animal Shelter will begin phasing out euthanasia by carbon monoxide by the end of the month, in part because of new shelter employees, the Licking County Commissioners announced Thursday.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - March 18, 2010) - Responding to an outpouring of reports regarding inhumane euthanasia practices at the Robeson County, North Carolina animal shelter, Robert's Cause met on Monday, March 15 th , with officials at the State Capitol in Raleigh.
Concerns are raised about the Connecticut Humane Society's care of animals.
When Idaho Gov. Butch Otter published his “Love Letter to Our Neighbors,” he touched off a political firestorm asserting his state is better for business. Otter sensed a weakness in Oregon’s business climate after lawmakers raised taxes on businesses and the wealthy by $727 million. Nike founder Phil Knight called it “Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law II.”
