A Mesa dog breeder has been reunited with two pit bull puppies stolen from her last week in a PetSmart parking lot.

Scottsdale police found the owner of two pit bulls that an officer shot and killed Thursday after they attacked a man and chased a woman into her house.

January 15, 2005

MESA, AZ - A pit bull puppy that has been recovering from serious injuries since March is now ready to be taken home by a loving family.

Pit Bull Awareness Day and vaccination clinic is Saturday at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control, 2630 W. Eighth St.

TUCSON - Pima County animal welfare officials have euthanized nearly 100 pit bulls seized from a breeding operation suspected of supplying fighting dogs to rings across the nation.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio backed off an earlier statement Thursday naming Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick in a pit bull fighting investigation that originated in 2004 in Gilbert.

A commotion erupted at a Tempe trailer park Monday morning when a pair of roaming pit bulls attacked a 12-yearold boy and residents fought off the dogs with everything from a broom to their feet.

Valley police shot and killed three pit bulls last week in separate incidents after the animals attacked people and other dogs.

Pit bulls have taken a beating in the media lately. One attacked a woman and her springer spaniel Dec. 21 at Gilbert’s Cosmo Park. Then Tempe and Phoenix police shot and killed four aggressive pit bulls in separate dog attacks during a three-week span starting Jan. 22.

The count of pit bulls shot and killed by Valley police in the last three weeks has risen to four. Phoenix police officers shot and killed another pit bull Wednesday evening at an apartment after the dog charged an officer trying to arrest a suspected felon.

Mesa dog breeder Beth Kaufman took precautions Wednesday when she showed her pedigreed pit bull puppies to a potential buyer.

Eleanor H. Porter’s 1913 book "Pollyanna’’ told the story of a girl whose infectious optimism changed the hearts of people in her small village.

A police officer shot and killed a pair of pit bulls that chased two people and attacked another Thursday in a Scottsdale neighborhood.

January 14, 2005

For the last two and a half years, Oscar Martin, a 4-year-old beagle, has not only been Robert Baker's best friend, he's been the Gilbert man's hearing service dog.

A Tempe police officer shot and killed a pit bull Monday near the Tempe public library.

Everybody who lives near DMX in the Cave Creek area knew when the rap musician and actor was visiting from the East Coast.

Police wounded two pit bulls and captured two others in a south Scottsdale neighborhood Wednesday afternoon.

February 25, 2005