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A 6-month-old boy who was visiting with relatives in Chesterfield County died Wednesday afternoon after being bit by the family's longtime pet dog. Police and paramedics were called about 1:40 p.m. to a home in the 4600 block of Overridge Drive for a report of an infant male being bitten by a dog, police said. The child, who police said is related to the dog's owner, was taken to VCU Medical Center in Richmond, where he died. The dog, a Dogo Argentino, was signed over to Chesterfield Animal Control. Lt. Randy Horowitz said the animal had no history of being...

Once bitten, twice not so shy, it seems, in the case of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his ongoing feud with Staten Island Chuck. Two years after he got bitten by the woodchuck, the Mayor called the animal a 'sonofab**ch' on Wednesday, not realising he was being filmed. Chuck lives at Staten Island Zoo and is the city's official woodchuck for the Groundhog Day ceremony.

VISTA - A jury on Friday convicted a Carlsbad man for forcing his wife to perform oral sex on him, but deadlocked over whether the man also raped and sodomized her.

Koral Wira, 14, was fishing with her parents and a friend near Venice, Fla., when a barracuda went for her dad's bait and ended up biting her instead. Her dad, Rob Parker, submitted these photos and Wira told the story. After anchoring the boat 4 miles off shore, Parker baited his rod with herring. Wira switched seats to get out of the hot sun, and watched as her dad cast. Moments later, she heard a splash and saw a long silver flash in the air. A barracuda jumped from the water and opened its mouth. As it hit her left...

SUFFOLK—A Suffolk woman who barked like a dog and tried to bite another person's finger off was declared incompetent to stand trial yesterday in district court. Lillian Beasley, 43, was charged with malicious wounding, trespassing and using profane language after a confrontation in March in which police say she bit another woman's finger until she almost severed it. At her appearance in General District Court on Monday, her trial was continued after a psychiatrist said she was unable to assist in mounting a defense. The case will be re-evaluated in November. According to the police report, Beasley became involved in...

A man who survived last year's deadly bush fires in Australia is recovering in hospital after falling victim to a rare attack by a wombat. Bruce Kringle, 60, was pulled to the ground by the animal and bitten on the legs and arms after apparently stepping on it by mistake. He escaped after killing the wombat with an axe. Animal experts said it appeared the wombat had been suffering from mange, which had made it irritable. Paramedic Robert Gill said it appeared Mr Kringle had trodden on the animal when he left his caravan in Flowerdale, north-east of Melbourne. He...

THOUSAND OAKS -- A 65 year old man had his finger bitten off Wednesday evening at a health care rally in Thousand Oaks, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Department. Sheriff's investigators were called to Hillcrest and Lynn Road at 7:26 p.m. About 100 protesters sponsored by MoveOn.org were having a rally supporting health care reform. A group of anti-health care reform protesters formed across the street. When someone from the pro-reform side crossed over to the anti-reform side, a fist fight ensued, which resulted in the man's pinky finger getting bitten off. It's believed the man was on the...

VIRGINIA BEACH A dog attacked a woman in a gas station parking lot this morning, causing serious injuries to her throat, police said. Just before noon, the woman was walking across the parking lot of the WilcoHess station in the 4400 block of Princess Anne Road, when the dog jumped from a vehicle and attacked her, said Officer Margie Long, a police spokeswoman. It took two citizens to pull the dog off her, and she suffered serious injuries that required surgery, she said. Officials took the dog, an Akita, to Animal Control, and charges are pending against the owner, Long...

MERIDEN - A former police captain accused of biting a woman in the arm has resigned from his job as training coordinator at the Meriden Police Department, a police spokesman said. Francis Woodruff, 51, left the department on May 8 after an employee at the Police Officer and Standards Training Council said he bit her arm on April 24, leaving teeth marks and bruising, officials said. Woodruff was assigned to work part time with POST through his job with Meriden police, but he is no longer allowed on the property, said Chief Thomas Flaherty, executive Director at POST. Woodruff, a...

Some men would find a pair of handcuffs in the bedroom a turn-on but not this guy. A crazed shrew itching to reconcile with her estranged husband cuffed herself to him as he slept because, she told cops, it was "the only way I could get him to talk to me."

He's been confined to a wheelchair for 20 years. Now a paraplegic man is walking again. And his doctors call it a miracle. CBS13 went to Manteca to find out how a spider bite helped get him back on his feet. "I closed my eyes and then I was spinning like a flying saucer," explains David Blancarte. A motorcycle accident almost killed David 21 years ago. At the time he might have wished he was dead. "I asked my doctor, "sir what happened?' I can't feel my legs," said David. Ever since, David's been relying on his wheelchair to get...

Alexander Kirilov, 44, was on a drunken weekend with pals when he lept on the terrified – but toothy – fur ball. “When I saw the raccoon I thought I’d have some fun,” he told stunned casualty surgeons in Moscow. Now Russian plastic surgeons are trying to restore his mangled manhood.

A 27-year-old Deltona woman told authorities she bit her husband's schvanschtooker because she didn't want to have sex with him. Charris Bowers was arrested Saturday by a Volusia County sheriff's deputy, accused of misdemeanor battery. A judge set her free Sunday without requiring her to post bail. Her husband, Delou Bowers, today would not comment. According to a sheriff's office report, the Bowerses had been to a bar Friday night. Delou Bowers told authorities that when they got home, his wife began to perform oral sex on him but then began to bite his schvanschtooker.

Republicans have been breathlessly waiting for a prominent Republican official to finally go after the corrupt and biased media propaganda machine, and throughout this election campaign, there has been little promise that we would ever see it. Better late than never. At long, long last, one of our own drew some blood: Barney, the first dog, finally decided to bite a reporter. Apparently, he was as sick of the disgusting media jackals as I have become. Mind you, that Reuters journalist is fortunate that Barney did not bite him where I would have bitten him were I in Barney's place....

EDWARDS, Colorado — A drunken man bit off part of his brother-in-law’s ear after an argument, according to an Eagle County Sheriff’s Office report. Henry T. Benites, 24, bit off part of the ear of Crisoforo Q. Reyes, 27, March 28, the report said. Benites said the fight started after he had slapped the hand of Reyes’ son when the boy dropped a milkshake, the report said. Benites said Reyes then pushed him twice, the report said. Benites also cursed several times and said he had beaten up Reyes, the report said. He said he drank seven beers that night,...

IT'S all ended like a Hollywood script for hero kelpie Tess. The brave pup has miraculously recovered after she was bitten by an eastern brown snake while defending her owner a week ago. Against the odds Tess has awoken from her coma, and she returned to her Tallebudgera Valley home on Saturday. Owner Fay Palethorpe said she was delighted to welcome her shaggy hero back to the 8ha property. "It was just so magical seeing her come home," said the 68-year-old. "During the car ride Tess refused to sit in the back seat. She sat in the front licking me...

From Plymouth Township police... Plymouth Township – On Tuesday, October 2, 2007, Plymouth Township Police Officers responded to the area of Ann Arbor Trail and Beacon Hill Dr regarding a person that was bitten by a fox. This person was jogging along the roadside when the attack occurred. Later that same day, a resident was in his yard and was also attacked and bit by a fox. Shortly after the second incident a third victim was attacked, not injured, and was able to kill the fox with a garden tool. The investigation revealed that there was one fox involved in...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- A pet store employee was recovering, Thursday morning, from a rattlesnake bite. Store surveillance video showed the man cleaning a western diamondback rattlesnake's cage Wednesday in Hollywood. But, when he tried to move the snake to another cage, it lashed out and bit his hand. The Florida snake handler was rushed to a Miami-Dade hospital that specializes in snake antivenin. Experts said the rattlesnake bite probably wasn't a feeding response, otherwise the attack caught on tape could have been much worse. The Strictly Reptiles Company breeds snakes and other reptiles. Employee Tony Cruz was cleaning the cage...

BUSHNELL, Fla. -- A Central Florida man accused of stealing poisonous snakes from a shed was hospitalized after he was bitten several times, according to authorities. Jonathan Lafever, 20, entered a Bushnell Wal-Mart at about 4 a.m. after suffering the snakebites on his hand, according to Sumter County sheriff's investigators. Employees found him bleeding and called authorities, according to a sheriff's report. Officials said they discovered five snakes in a box in the trunk of Lafever's car. The owner of the snakes was contacted and identified all of the stolen snakes, including two Rock rattlesnakes, a Honduran Milk snake, a...

Dogs in Texas are presumed safe until proven dangerous. But maybe not for long. Under a bill that got unanimous approval in the state House on Tuesday, dog owners could be sent to jail for up to 20 years after a first-time mauling, representing a sea change in canine jurisprudence. Prosecutors in Texas operate under the "first bite is free" principle: Until a dog is proven dangerous as determined by a documented attack or an official court order, their owners generally can't be held criminally liable. House Bill 1355 would establish felony penalties for the owners of dogs that seriously...