Kidnapped dog found days after shootout
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A kidnapped Colombian dog held for $350,000 (170,600 pound) ransom was recovered on Friday after his abductors dropped him off at a veterinarian's office, saying he needed a bath.
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A couple's discovery of their missing dog for sale on a pet adoption Web site led police to a Long Island home where more than 50 dogs were living in squalid conditions, authorities said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan forces searched on Sunday for a U.S. aid worker kidnapped by gunmen from the southern city of Kandahar.
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An escaped prisoner accused in the videotaped kidnapping of a lawyer who was grabbed at gunpoint outside her loft was captured Saturday after authorities acting on a tip swarmed an apartment where he was discovered hiding in a closet.
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Police said Wednesday a woman who lives at the home found the intruder Sept. 27 and called police. A police dog tried to track the intruder but the person got away.
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MUNCIE, Ind. - Police used a stun gun to subdue a man who started choking a police dog that found him after a chase on foot, authorities said.
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Police using helicopters and horses searched for the body of a kidnapped Dallas restaurateur Monday after a suspect reported that the businessman was killed hours after he was snatched from his car a week ago.
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TORONTO -- An armed hostage-taking at Toronto&#39;s busy Union Station ended just before 9 am with a man being shot dead by a police sharpshooter, leaving the hostage shaken but unharmed and the normally bustling area eerily quiet.
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An American, a Nepalese and four Iraqi guards were kidnapped Monday when gunmen stormed their office in Baghdad, sparking a gunfight that killed an attacker and a guard, officials said.
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BEVIL OAKS, Texas - A tiny dog from East Texas is back home after surviving a big adventure in the Montana backcountry.  Esther, a 10-month-old terrier mix, went missing for five days and nights after jumping out of her owner's truck to chase a herd of elk.
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Police say they believe a 19-year-old college student who mysteriously disappeared from a friend's home over the weekend was kidnapped.
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The body of a man killed in a shootout during a clandestine horse race last weekend was stolen from its freshly dug grave in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz, an official said Wednesday.
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Police in Phoenix, Arizona, appealed Sunday for help in finding a 24-year-old man known as "Psycho" who is a suspect in Saturday's shootings of six people and a dog.
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Animal stolen from zoo found in raid on gang hideout, but two Arabic-speaking parrots still missing.
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LOS ANGELES - Four purebred Yorkshire terriers stolen at gunpoint during a home invasion robbery more than a week ago were returned to their owners after a man turned himself in to police.
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An undercover police officer had been shot, and police were hunting for the suspect's vehicle. They soon found it &#151; with another officer behind the wheel, police said.
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DENVER - A black Labrador named Pearl who plunged through thin ice on a Denver lake Tuesday was reunited with her owner after a firefighter in a dive suit scooted along the ice and scooped up the scrambling pooch. The rescue was caught on video by two television stations.