Still, the issue has become more pressing in recent years with the growing popularity of pit bulls and a host of well-publicized incidents in which these dogs have mauled small children.

Back on shore, a vicious dog that Litchfield had kept chained up breaks free, runs down to the wharf and savagely mauls Nicholas.

After Sly's dog mauled their son in 1976, Silva left.

Sadly, the dog subsequently mauled another child, who suffered severe facial lacerations.

A1 Murder Conviction Voided A California judge threw out a jury verdict of second-degree murder for Marjorie Knoller, whose dogs mauled a neighbor to death.

"That goddamned dog has mauled me."

When the inmate was not very strong, the dog could knock him to the ground and maul him beyond recognition.

In the outer gardens I found Nabonidus' dog mauled to death.

In a stunning reversal, a judge today threw out the murder conviction of a woman whose dog mauled a neighbor to death, letting stand the lesser convictions of involuntary manslaughter against the woman and her husband.

Two lawyers whose huge dog mauled a neighbor to death as she was trying to enter her San Francisco apartment were convicted today on all five charges, including a count of murder against one of them.