With the Christmas Day release of "Marley & Me," animal shelters and rescue organizations are concerned the film could inadvertently create a yuletide demand for Labrador retrievers, which may in turn flood the puppy business with requests and possibly fill next year's shelters with year-old Labs.

RALEIGH — The state has called off the dogs – the N.C. Highway Patrol canine program.

The public is about to be unnecessarily denied a valuable law-enforcement tool.

In another land and time the Yorkshire terrier was not a small longhaired show dog and pet. Rather, he was a larger rat killing dynamo. Tracing back to the 1600\’s the breed was valued in textile mills, mines and farms where pest control was important. In the 1860s era the breed was quite popular in rat killing contests - with the dog credited with being the foundation of the breed showing as well as winning many contests. Huddersfield Ben helped establish the Yorkshire Terrier. It was 1872 be

Amelia is eager to learn as she sits in Beth Rubendall’s fourth-grade class. You can tell by the excited look in her dark brown eyes and the wag of her tail.