La. becomes last state to ban cockfights
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The only state where breeders can still legally pit fighting roosters against each other in bloody battles to the death has officially banned cockfighting starting next summer.
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The Gwinnett County district attorneyâs office dismissed felony animal cruelty charges against Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux.
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MIAMI -- One evening last week, two roosters in a ring surrounded by cheering spectators pecked and clawed one another in a fight to the death. With each lunge, feathers flew, then floated to the ground. Finally, one bloodied bird, its eyes plucked out, lurched and faltered.
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BATON ROUGE, La. - A state judge Tuesday threw out a Louisiana constitutional amendment banning gay marriage...
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By Jason Kolnos, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.  Dec. 15--ORLEANS -- Local parks officials are considering an  unprecedented solution to their piping plover predicament: Get federal and  state regulators to ease rules protecting the threatened species.
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A fishing town has banned the sport of conger cuddling after an animal activist complained.
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A federal appeals court has overturned a statute outlawing sex toy sales in Texas, one of the last states Â all in the South Â to retain such a ban.
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Congressional Democrats are moving to repeal a law passed by Republicans last year that would have allowed trophy hunts opposed by the National Park Service to continue on a Southern California public island.
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The decision removes the last hurdle before meat and milk from cloned animals can be sold at grocery stores.
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Wrestler Hulk Hogan has a new opponent &#151; those who organize animal fights. The Miami Beach resident sent a video message Thursday to all 435 members of the House of Representatives. In it, he says laws against dog fighting and cockfighting aren't tough enough.
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Plans to phase out the ban on cattle over 30 months old being sold as meat are announced.
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Some cockfighters might take their roosters south of the border. Others are likely to go underground.
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After almost 20 years of political squabbling, New Mexico has banned cockfighting. How peace came to the rooster pit.
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A state judge Tuesday threw out a Louisiana constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, less than three weeks after voters overwhelmingly approved it.
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Most forms of Internet gambling would be banned under a bill that received final U.S. congressional approval early Saturday.
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A state judge Tuesday threw out a Louisiana constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage that was overwhelmingly approved by voters Sept. 18.
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An animal sanctuary is to stop taking in greyhounds after becoming a target for animal rights activists.