Avoid the damage; fix the dogs Animal advocates cheered on November 19, 2015 when Judge Wayne Durden of Polk County, Florida sentenced alleged dogfighter Hewitt Grant II, 48, to serve 20 years in prison. Convicted on 84 counts of cruelty, Grant is to serve at least 16 years before becoming eligible for parole, and is […]
Echoes of the Old South in pigeon-shooting lawyer’s promotion to judge
Shot pigeons in front of Confederate flag HARRISBURG––Neither the slave-owning South, shot-wounded pigeons, nor the practice of pigeon shooting in civilized societies are ever likely to rise again. Just the same, the Pennsylvania State Senate Judiciary Committee on June 26, 2014 ratified the promotion of Berks County attorney Adolph Joseph Antanavage to a Court of […]