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The Lakeville Police Department soon will see one of its veterans retire. His replacement will arrive with the promise to work for food. Blue, one of two German shepherds in Lakeville’s K-9 unit, will retire in March after seven years on the street, ending a partnership with Sgt. Brigham Strole that began in 2003. Officer Chad Loeffler and Shadow, together since 2006, will welcome the seventh dog in the history of the department next summer, confident the tradition will continue that the dog

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Duly Noted: Racial Discrimination of Dogs By George Handlery Created 2009-08-02 21:22 George Handlery about the week that was. Struggling against the racist profiling of dogs. Culture and crime. Enshrining the wrong tradition. Bailouts and pork. Taxing what is not understood. Talking about the weather is not idle talk any more. New terms for the old left. Helping the people against its will. 1. Here is good story if told as a joke. At the same time, it indicates a serio

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Paws are again hitting the pavement as Waupun Police Department’s new K9 team springs into action after a two-year absence. Another canine, Agon, will sport a law enforcement badge, following in the 19-year tradition begun by former Police Chief Tom Winscher. Handling Agon, a 2-year-old male Belgian malinois from Europe , is Officer Trevor Kreitzman. “Officer Kreitzman has showed a great amount of dedication in getting the program back up and running,” said Police Chief Dale Heeringa. “In t

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Pleading with reporters to “keep an eye me,” Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina today announced that he is ready to take responsibility for having an extra-marital affair by running for the 2012 Republican nomination for president. Sanford follows in a tradition of Republicans who atone for personal or professional wrongdoing by not stepping down. Reiterating his remorse at carrying on an affair with penpal Maria Belen Chapur, an Argentine divorcee, Sanford said he is apologizing to his

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by Albert Barkley The Treeing Walker Coonhound gained recognition as an independent dog breed in the mid 1940s. The breed is an offshoot of the Tennessee Lead, a dog whose origins cannot be traced, and the Walker Hound. It is a direct descendant of the English Foxhounds imported by Thomas Walker of Virginia in 1974. The importation of foxhounds to Virginia was Thomas Walkers attempt to introduce the New World to the English foxhunting tradition. But the tradition did not become a popular p

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