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An Allen woman said she got a painful reminder two weeks ago of the wild -- while jogging in a suburban neighborhood. The 39-year-old woman, who asked she not be identified, said a coyote took a bite out of her thigh as she rounded a curve on a popular Allen jogging trail. "I think I surprised it," she said. "That's what the problem was. It was dark, really quiet, and it probably thought I was attacking it."

FREDERICK, Colo.—A Catholic priest faces an indecent exposure charge after police said he went jogging in the nude about an hour before sunrise. The Rev. Robert Whipkey told officers he had been running naked at a high school track and didn't think anyone would be around at that time of day, a police report said. He told officers he sweats profusely if he wears clothing while jogging. "I know what I did was wrong," he said in the report. Whipkey did not return phone messages. His attorney, Doug Tisdale, told the Longmont Times-Call that Whipkey had no comment. Whipkey, 53,...

DELTONA, Fla. -- A woman who went on a jog with her two dogs Monday night attempted to shoot a pit bull because she felt threatened, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. According to sheriff's deputies, Christine Bruce was jogging past 1435 Gainesville Drive in Deltona when she observed a pit bull in the front yard. Bruce told officials that the dog's owner, Rickey Ward, was exciting the animal in such a way that she felt like she was going to be attacked. Bruce, who was attacked by a pit bull three years ago, said she asked Ward to...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. A South Kingstown man who became ill after he drank from a beer bottle ingested a caustic liquid. Police say the liquid that sent Michael Darigan to the hospital last Sunday resembles lye. Lye is a highly concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide. It's often found in commercial drain and oven cleaners. The 53-year-old Darigan found the bottle along his jogging route last week. Sergeant Thomas Owens says there's no evidence suggesting Darigan was personally targeted. Local police sent two bottles of the liquid to the state Department of Health for testing. Darigan's wife has...

UNION BEACH, N.J. -- Monmouth County authorities said a nude banker wearing a condom jumped out of the woods and tried to sexually assault an off-duty female police officer who was out for a jog. The woman grabbed a can of pepper spray and called police on her cell phone as she chased the man in Union Beach on Sunday. Authorities said the woman got the license plate number to a rental car, which authorities traced to John Kelly. The 39-year-old surrendered to police Thursday. Officials said the Jersey City resident is a vice president for Chase in New York....

WEST MEPHIS, Ark. -- Arkansas' naked jogger has been zapped. For months, officers have been getting reports about a man making late-night runs in the buff. On Monday, police said they think they got their mystery jogger. Fate Patterson, 39, of West Memphis, was arrested after he ran past a police car and failed to stop when he was ordered to do so by officers. Police chased him and were able to rein him in by using a Taser. Patterson was charged with indecent exposure, fleeing and resisting arrest. Mike Allen, assistant chief of the West Memphis police department, said...

Deceits Follow Husband in Hacking Case Fri Jul 30, 7:34 PM ET By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY - By all accounts, Mark Hacking was fun to be around and loving to his wife. He wanted to be liked and respected and, like his father, to become a doctor. AP Photo   But years of deceptions are catching up to Hacking, a 28-year-old former nightshift hospital orderly who has become the focus of police in the disappearance of his wife, who vanished as they were packing to move to a medical school where, it turns out, he...

(NEWS 3) - The owner of a pit bull that tore off a jogger's finger says she's preparing to face possible charges. In an interview with News 3 reporter Mark Albert, Lisa VanBruggen said she does not know who let the pit bull and a rottweiler out of her backyard. VanBruggen says she's sorry and that she will not own a dog again. Authorities say Gerald Lambert, 57, was jogging in front of 3373 Sandra Dr. in Cooper Township near Parchment Thursday morning when the two dogs attacked him. As Lambert was fending off the rottweiler, the pit bull sunk...

<p>TITUSVILLE, Florida (AP) -- A woman on her morning jog was killed Tuesday after being crushed by a 40-foot magnolia tree that fell on her.</p> <p>Amber Farrell, 27, was about 25 feet from the tree on a residential street when it fell and struck her from behind, trapping her under its 2-foot-thick trunk, said police spokesman Todd Hutchinson.</p>

DENVER Sept. 19 — A construction worker kidnapped a jogger and raped her five times over a span of 24 hours in his pornography-littered trailer, videotaping one of the assaults and happily watching it before letting her go, authorities said. Police say the 45-year-old woman was set free after she agreed to let the suspect make the video, pretend she was into it and kiss him. They had sex for 20 minutes and he replayed the video. "The male was very happy about it," an arrest affidavit said. The suspect then left her at a Denver motel with $2 in...

Two men are being hunted by police today after a dramatic breakthrough in the search for the killers of jogger Margaret Muller. The men were spotted sprinting from Victoria Park in Hackney moments after the American artist was brutally stabbed to death. A witness, who was on his way to work, told detectives the men ran from the rose garden area of the park, where the 27-year-old artist was attacked at about 8am on Monday, towards Cawley Gate.

State Justice Charles Tejada, moving more quickly than defense lawyers and prosecutors had expected, dismissed all indictments against the five less than a week before Christmas. His ruling wasn't expected until Jan. 6. The decision came two weeks after Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau recommending dropping all the convictions in the case. The decision to dismiss the indictments means prosecutors would have to start from scratch with a grand jury to retry the five. Tejeda's decision came after lawyers from the police detectives' union unsuccessfully tried to block his ruling. The Detectives' Endowment Association wanted an evidentiary hearing first,...

On December 5, I sent the following letter to the New York Times. You can bet the ranch the newspaper, which stopped printing my letters five years ago, will never publish it. To the Editor: In your December 6 editorial ("Injustice in the Jogger Case") supporting Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau's call to exonerate the five men convicted in the 1989 Central Park Jogger case, you write, "Fair-minded people are appalled by the prosecutorial missteps and overreaching that led to the faulty convictions of five teenagers..." I submit that fair-minded people who have followed the case since its bloody inception, are...

They look like children. When they appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court last Wednesday (May 10) to enter their pleas on charges that they gang-raped and attempted to murder a jogger in Central Park, Raymond Santana, 14, Kevin Richardson, 14, Steve Lopez, 15, Antron McCray, 15, Yusef Salaam, 15, and Kharey Wise, 16, did not look savage, or cruel, or capable of committing what prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer has called ''one of the most vicious and brutal crimes in the history of New York.'' If they had gone ''wilding'' -- a new street term for running amok -- they now looked terribly...

FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — Collisions between moose and cars are common this time of year, but joggers? A California man visiting Franconia is nursing a sore shoulder after bumping into a moose on a bike path Wednesday. Steve Skelton said he jogged around a corner and found a mother moose and her calf running toward him. The moose hit his shoulder, then fell and skidded on the wet ground before running into the woods. Skelton was knocked to the ground but wasn’t seriously injured.