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Police in Lebanon ,Ohio shoot lost cat-see story on Channel 12 website.

The markets are sharply higher as they get an oversold bounce ahead of the FOMC Policy Statement. In the last two weeks, the markets have dumped over 15%. Everything from major market leaders like Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) to small cap runners like OXiGENE, Inc. (NASDAQ:OXGN) have been pounded but are now surging dramatically higher.

A tiny kitten survived a harrowing ordeal on the Verrazano Bridge after it was thrown from a moving car, landing near the edge of the bridge before being rescued by a passing animal control officer. The officer was transporting animals to a Staten Island facility on Saturday and saw the gray kitten thrown out of the window, Animal Care & Control of NYC said Wednesday. The officer quickly pulled the vehicle over to try and rescue the kitten, which was found near the edge of the bridge. Passing truck drivers stopped to help block traffic while the rescue occurred, animal...

Cat and green apples ambush

At first glance, the orange and white cat in one of the Oregon Humane Society's kennels looks like your average cat, nestled in fuzzy blankets and cleaning itself. A closer look, though, reveals singed, curled whiskers and black and red footpads, evidence that this cat, along with 13 others now at OHS, survived an apartment fire in Lebanon on Wednesday and need new homes. OHS staff were already scheduled to go pick up the cats on Thursday from the owner, who was overwhelmed by the number of cats -- about 20 -- that were living in the apartment. Unfortunately, that...

NEW YORK, - A New York woman says she had nearly given up hope her pet cat, Eddie, was still alive after the feline was carried off by a red-tailed hawk. But Eddie, who weighs in at a hefty 15 pounds, was found stunned and disheveled but still kicking in the back yard of an apartment building after the estimated 4-pound bird apparently couldn't hang on and dropped it. Eddie plummeted an estimated five stories but was no worse for wear, the New York Daily News said Saturday. "He checked out fine, other than some minor cuts, scrapes and bruises,"...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Caterpillar Inc. avoided paying more than $2 billion in federal income taxes from 2000 to 2009 by accounting fraudulently for billions in dollars of profits, according to a lawsuit filed by a manager of the heavy equipment maker. Daniel Schlicksup, who was a global tax strategy manager for the company from 2005 to 2008, alleges that the company wrongly attributed at least $5.6 billion in profits from sales through an Illinois-based warehouse to its unit in Switzerland in order to lessen its tax burden and increase earnings. A spokesman for Caterpillar, which reported $2.7 billion in...

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) – A 21-year-old woman in Boulder has been arrested after allegedly blowing heroin smoke in the face of a cat, killing the animal.

An amateur photographer has told how he managed to get this amazing picture of a cat balancing on a 17th floor balcony railing. Ivo Berg, 22, a marketing engineer from Berlin, was visiting a friend who lived with his two pet cats in a high rise in Santiago, Chile. He said: "As soon as I got to my friend's apartment I fell in love with the view but I was also very worried about the suicidal behaviour of his two cats. "They would chase each other through the apartment, fighting and playing. But they would also jump on to the...

In the 20-second video, our black feline friend can be seen from behind, sticking its head out of a window and making said barking noises (some have suggested the mimic is to scare off an actual canine, but we're not sure). When it realises its owner is behind it, camera in hand, however, the cat immediately switches to making more, err, cat-like noises.

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. -- According to police, a central Indiana man said he was helping his wife commit suicide, but is facing not only a murder charge but also a charge of cruelty to animals after police found the woman and her pet cat strangled in a Kentucky hotel. Over the weekend, Lonnie Daughtery was found in bed with his wife. Police said they both had multiple injuries but his wife had been strangled. Elizabethtown police said the couple was supposed to check out of the Holiday Inn Express on Saturday, but when they didn't, that's when police discovered the crime...

A local business is currently being raided for what the Department of Defense tells WSAZ.com is a multi-million dollar billing fraud investigation. COAL GROVE, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Two local business are currently being raided for what the investigators on the scene tell WSAZ.com is a multi-million dollar billing fraud investigation. 40 local, state and federal agencies are involved in a raid at Dr. Peter Tsai's Medical Office and the Watkins-Tsai Imaging Center in Coal Grove. Click here to find out more! The two businesses are located just off US 52 at the Coal Grove exit on Marion Pike. Investigators tell...

Long after questions were first raised about the overuse of powerful CT scans, hundreds of hospitals across the country needlessly exposed patients to radiation by scanning their chests twice on the same day, according to federal records and interviews with researchers. Performing two scans in succession is rarely necessary, radiologists say, yet some hospitals were doing that more than 80 percent of the time for their Medicare chest patients, according to Medicare outpatient claims from 2008, the most recent year available. The rate is typically less than 1 percent, or in some cases zero, at major university teaching hospitals. Next...

MYFOXNY.COM - A nine year old cat survived a 14-story plunge from an Upper West Side apartment building. The Lang family moved to a building on West 64th St. and West End Ave. about a month ago with their pet Copper. Angela Lang says their apartment's windows don't open far and they never thought she could get through them. Copper proved them wrong and got out onto the ledge; but fell. They thought she was on top of a parking garage next to the building but there was no access to the roof. Nine hours later, the building supervisor used...

It’s the capper to a near purrfect spring after winning his long-sought majority: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a new pet cat. The Harpers announced the arrival of the newest, furry member of their family Saturday on the prime minister’s Facebook page — and offered the public the chance to name the grey tabby. “Happy to have a new Harper at 24,” a statement on the site said. “He’s a grey tabby and needs a name, vote for your favourite.”

Strange as it sounds, the question has been thrown around in previous years and even studied by scientists. A recent write-up on the website Improbable Research revisits whether cats with darker coats wreak more havoc on their owners' immune systems. Pet dander, skin flakes, saliva and urine can aggravate owners' allergies and asthma, but for cats in particular, a specific protein called "Fel d 1" is a common culprit. It's secreted by cats' salivary and sebaceous (or oil) glands, so when a cat grooms itself, it spreads the allergen to the outermost surface of the fur, increasing human exposure to...

A cat burglar who stole 600 items has been outed as an actual cat, after a night-vision camera was used to capture footage of the feline. Residents in San Francisco had initially wondered what was happening when clothes, teddy-bears and other small items started disappearing. But it soon became apparent the crook was a kleptomaniac kitty called Dusty who kept returning home with other peoples belongings. After setting up night-vision camera they recorded footage of him going out under the cover of night and dragging back his loot. Over the past three years the cat is said to have stole...

Aren't you glad it's Friday? Do you want to maybe cry a little in celebration? Then check out this video, below, of Judy Pugh, whose home was destroyed by the tornadoes that swept through Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27. The ferocious twister left at least 39 dead in Tuscaloosa alone. Pugh cheerfully told local station WIAT that she rushed to the hallway with her three cats when the mile-wide tornado hit. The roof fell on top of her, but miraculously she and two of her cats were all in one piece. "I tried to get to my hands and knees...

There are two real cool videos on this site. One is of a dog that has obviously had puppies fairly recently, and it is stalking a cat. The cat is completely oblivious to the dog that is about top pounce on it. Worry not if you are a cat lover, because it turns out much differently than you would imagine.The second video is of a cat that is slowly sneaking up on the person who is recording it. Every time the camera comes from around the corner the cat is closer. With music added to make it seem like...

A while back there was a video of a cat that seemed to have a ninja quality about it. Whoever owned the cat, recorded it sneaking up to him in a stealthy almost ninja like manner. Well, that is what the dog in this video is doing as it sneaks up on an unsuspecting feline. You will notice from the dog's teats, that she recently had puppies. This could be the reason the dog feels the need to sneak up upon the cat as it did. It's my guess that the dog is either thinking she must defend her...