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Hardy is a highly-trained U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Detector dog and he sniffed out the roasted pig’s head in the luggage of a passenger traveling from Ecuador at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Oct. 11. [P]ork and pork products from other continents are not allowed into the United States in an effort to avoid introducing foot and mouth disease, classical swine fever and other animal diseases. CBP Area Port Director Carey Davis hailed Hardy’s work as illustrating “the tremendous expertise of our four-legged K-9 partners in protecting the United States.” Hardy has worked at Atlanta’s airport since 2015,...

The terrorist responsible for Sunday’s deadly terror attack in Jerusalem should be buried with a pig’s head, said MK Yaakov Margi (Shas) on Monday. Margi, who chairs the Knesset’s Education Committee, tweeted that were it up to him, the terrorist, reportedly inspired by the ISIS terror group, would have been interred with the head of a pig, an animal whose very touch is considered unclean in Islam. “If it were up to me, I would bury this cursed terrorist with a pig’s head,” wrote Margi. The attacker, he continued “brought us back to reality and reminded us who the real...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - This past week, the mayor of Juarez received a pig's head with a note attached to it. Experts say cartels use psychological tactics, but political figures are not usually targets. U.S. officials worry the violence could spill over into the U.S., since the mayor's family lives in El Paso. Experts also say the pig head indicates the mayor may have broken some sort of agreement, which is why he may now be a target.

By DAVID HACKETT david.hackett@heraldtribune.com Like most major donors to Section 527 organizations, Sarasota's Frank Brunckhorst prefers to let his money do the talking. Brunckhorst, 42, the chairman of Boar's Head Provisions, one of the nation's leading purveyors of deli products, has given more than $900,000 to Democratic causes in the past year. Brunckhorst's emergence as one of the Democrats' money men has surprised local and national leaders from both parties, who said they had never heard of him until he started writing checks for as much as $500,000. "This guy wasn't on any of our radar screens before this year,"...