The parent company of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has received a nearly $16 million settlement from a number of animal-rights groups, including the Humane Society of the United States, ending a 14-year legal battle initiated over unproven allegations of mistreated elephants.

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WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department is cracking down on dog breeders who sell puppies over the Internet, issuing new regulations that will force them to apply for federal licenses. The rules announced Tuesday would subject dog owners who breed more ...

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Baltimore County will build a dog park at Honeygo Regional Park in Perry Hall, it was announced by County Executive Kevin Kamenetz.

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The family of a woman who lapsed into a coma and died shortly after being released from detention plans to file a civil rights lawsuit against corrections officials, the family’s attorney said Monday.

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It took more than six years, but Maryland’s top court on Thursday upheld Tony Lamont Haile’s animal-cruelty conviction for injuring a police dog sent to subdue him.

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ANNAPOLIS — Legislation to create a special fund to spay and neuter cats and dogs by taxing pet food sold in Maryland was proposed on Thursday. The bill would provide spay and neuter services for financially-qualified individuals through a voucher ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A Severna Park woman has been fined $2,000 for causing unnecessary pain and suffering to cats. Fifty-year-old Deanna Lusko was sentenced Tuesday in Annapolis. The Anne Arundel County state’s attorney’s office says the former owner of Cool Cats ...

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A 21-year-old man has been charged with 134 counts of animal cruelty after numerous creatures, including a kinkajou and a chinchilla, were removed from his Pasadena home. The Capital of Annapolis, citing court documents, reports that Shane Taylor was served ...

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Construction is slated to begin soon on an Australian exhibit at the Salisbury Zoo, ushering in a shift at the attraction from its decades-long concentration on creatures from the Americas.

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The area of animal law goes beyond drafting life-estates for four-legged survivors or defending an owner whose dog has been judicially declared inherently dangerous. The cases deal with serious, wide-ranging areas of the law — including constitutional rights, property law and business law, animal lawyers said.

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