| Residents on alert after Great Dane bites housewife in Aichi city
OWARIASAHI, Aichi -- Local residents are on the alert following an incident in which a large dog believed to be a Great Dane attacked a housewife, biting her hand. Parents and teachers at schools in the area where the incident occurred are standing guard along school routes to make sure that no children are attacked. Officials at the Aichi prefectural animal welfare center believe the dog came from a former store in the neighboring city of Seto, and warned the owner, but the owner said his dog was not responsible. Police who received a complaint from the woman who was bitten plan to question the man in the near future on suspicion of injury through negligence. Seto Municipal Government officials said a worker at a prefectural labor training center spotted two black dogs and one white dog in the city at about 3 p.m.
Bringing home slain soldiers a somber duty
The bad news arrived between 3 and 4 in the morning, like nearly every other time that Maj. Bob Bennett's comrades have called from Iraq to let him know that another of their soldiers has died. The caller gives a name, a Social Security number and preliminary details. It sets in motion a process that will draw in many of the 250 or so soldiers under Bennett's charge as a Stryker brigade rear detachment commander. "Everything stops," Bennett said Thursday. "We are doing other things – training replacements, for instance. We have trained and sent more than 100 soldiers to Iraq as replacements." But when it comes time to attend to a soldier who's been killed, he said, "it becomes the total focus of what we're doing – and it ought to be the total focus of what we're doing." The most recent call brought six names, six numbers – an entire squad, save one soldier, wiped out in Sunday's Stryker bombing in Baqouba.
Redevelopment of armory stalled
BOULDER - A tangled web of land value, density limits and city approval is delaying a possible deal and redevelopment of the Colorado National Guard Armory in North Boulder.
More than year ago, the nine-acre site at Broadway and Lee Hill Road was slated to be sold to local developer Jim Loftus. He had proposed a 34,000-square-foot grocery store and 200 condominiums for the property.
In order to proceed with those plans, the land would need to be rezoned to allow for that kind of development and density, Loftus said.
To change the zoning, Loftus would need a myriad of city council and planning board approvals, including changes to the North Boulder Subcommunity Plan, Boulder Redevelopment Director Brad Power said.
Loftus was willing to hold a couple of neighborhood meetings for his plan, but he didn't want to go through the entire zoning change process for a parcel of land he didn't even own yet.
Training is key for local officers and K-9 partners
That catch phrase send dogs like Lakkie and Taco into a frenzy. The two canines, or K-9s, are partners to K-9 Officers Steve Boroff and Rob Black, respectively, of the Van Wert City Police Department (VWPD).
K-9s were first introduced to the VWPD in 1981 when current Lt. Tom Bartz received "Bismark" as a K-9 partner. Bismark served the department from October 11, 1981 to June 2, 1984.
Black got Taco in October of 2005 and started him on the road in December 2005. Lakkie was picked up from the kennel by Boroff in December of 2005 and was started on the road February 2006.
Even though they may not realize it, the K-9s have a serious job to do. Lakkie and Taco have the responsibility of finding narcotics, runaways and fleeing suspects and are also Life Flight certified.
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