Euthanasia

South Bend's Animal Care and Control is headed in a new direction, including a change in leadership. The director, Gary Libby, was fired earlier this week after 17 years with the department. The city's communication director wouldn't say why Libby was...

C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, has died in New Hampshire at age 96. An assistant at Koop's Dartmouth institute,...

South Bend euthanized more than 60 percent of the animals it took in last year. A South Bend Common Council member has a plan to drastically lower that number, and she says it wouldn’t cost taxpayer dollars. In 2011, South Bend Animal Care and...

DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Humane Society's board is bringing in an outside expert to evaluate how the organization decides which dogs go for adoption and which dogs are killed. The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press report the board voted...

Community outeach is the next step, now that South Bend Animal Care & Control broke ground in Kennedy park for its new facility. "There has to be community outreach, pet education and low-cost spay and neutering," says Valerie Schey, president of...

DETROIT (AP) — A lawyer and friend of Jack Kevorkian says the assisted suicide advocate has died at a Detroit-area hospital at the age of 83. Mayer (MAY'-uhr) Morganroth tells The Associated Press that Kevorkian died Friday morning at William...

May 24 (Infostrada Sports) - Fixtures from the Greek championship play-offs matches on Friday Champions League Play-off Sunday, May 26 (GMT) PAOK Salonika v Asteras Tripolis (1515) Atromitos Athinon v PAS Giannena (1730)

By Graham Wood ATHENS, May 23 (Reuters) - Panathinaikos are one of eight clubs in the Greek top flight to be denied licences to compete in next season's championship, the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) has said. All 16 clubs had their applications...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Panathinaikos are one of eight clubs in the Greek top flight to be denied licences to compete in next season's championship, the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) has said. All 16 clubs had their applications examined by the EPO's...

May 22 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Greek championship play-offs matches on Wednesday Wednesday, May 22 PAS Giannena 1 Atromitos Athinon 1 Standings P W D L F A Pts 1 PAS Giannena 3 2 1 0 4 2 7 ------------------------- 2...

* Rome in splendour, Italy in demise in "The Great Beauty" * "A Castle in Italy", 19 other films compete for Palme d'Or By Alexandria Sage CANNES, May 21 (Reuters) - Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty," a nostalgic, melancholic ode to the eternal...

(In May 20 story, corrects Edward Mahoney's affiliation to Vermont Alliance for Ethical Healthcare, not True Dignity Vermont) By Jason McLure May 20 (Reuters) - Vermont on Monday became the fourth U.S. state to end legal penalties for doctors who...