A national animal rights group is suing Chandler in an attempt to stop a controversial drug-testing facility from coming to town.

PARIS - U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan has been pelted with a flour bomb on arrival at a Paris nightclub wearing a fur stole.

Humans are capable of incredible intellectual feats but sometimes they demonstrate distressingly short memories. So it is with the controversy swirling around the recent announcement by Covance Inc., a medical research firm, to open a facility in Chandler.

Arizona State University has long been a target of animal rights activists — and activists are preparing to shoot those arrows again.

April 28, 2005

That the wild animals who inhabit the former Out of Africa Wildlife Park on tribal land northeast of Scottsdale must endure the difficult experience of a move to Camp Verde with more haste than park operators planned is regrettable.

There are many ways to get from point A to point B. There is a straight line and there is the scenic route. Sometimes, it is how you get from point A to B that is important. You can cheat and get a 100 percent on a test or you can work hard, learn and get the 100 percent and get value from what you have learned/accomplished.

There are many ways to get from point A to point B. There is a straight line and there is the scenic route. Sometimes, it is how you get from point A to B that is important. You can cheat and get a 100 percent on a test or you can work hard, learn and get the 100 percent and get value from what you have learned/accomplished.

An overwhelming number of calls to Mesa’s two-person Animal Control Unit has prompted police officials to consider turning over the responsibility to Maricopa County.

A state law taking effect Sept. 30 sets conditions under which shelters may sterilize and implant microchips on impounded dogs and cats before they are released to owners.

I need to respond to the nonsensical letter by Bill Webster on Nov. 4 about “God put animals on this earth for humans to use, whatever that purpose may be.” One can only assume it is just fine with Mr. Webster that animals are abused, tortured, maimed, or killed for sport or fun. After all, in his opinion, God gave them to mankind for “whatever purpose.” Anyone who has looked into the eyes of a suffering animal and can still claim that it is good and proper to do that to an animal since God has no objections, is callous, misguided, and needs a heart transplant.

Soaring summer temperatures have brought a rash of dog deaths to the Valley and alarmed animal rights activists.

Once Tuesday’s presents are unwrapped and thoroughly played with — and before the kids are back in school and the relatives back on flights home — why not take a family adventure to a little-seen sanctuary north of the East Valley?

PHOENIX — The children buzz in excitement, boisterous and barging in, their little hands covering seemingly every part of the Australian shepherd’s body.

March 11, 2005

WASHINGTON - Meat and milk from cloned animals is as safe as that from their counterparts bred the old-fashioned way, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday - but sales still won't begin right away.

Saving animals from euthanasia has been the goal of Maricopa County Animal Care and Control, but for years lack of funding has left the department running on fumes.