The Woodlands dog- and horse-racing track in Kansas plans to open a temporary casino with as many as 800 slot machines by February, while building a $40 million to $50 million permanent casino and restaurant, its operators said this
Residents of Weatherford, Texas, who had gone back home after one evacuation kept watch Sunday on the Brazos River, which was rising again as flood gates were opened at overloaded upstream reservoirs.
The Brazos was expected to swell bac
Two Ballston Spa, N.Y., men accused of trying to fix races by injecting harness horses with substances designed to deaden pain or improve performance pleaded guilty today to felony charges.
District Attorney James Murphy says 68-year-old
A federal judge Thursday refused a request from the nation’s last operating horse slaughterhouse to remain open, but a legal dispute over a state ban on killing horses for food isn’t over.
Cavel International Inc.’s site in DeKalb,
A father and son accused of trying to fix races by injecting harness horses with substances designed to deaden pain or improve performance pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony charges in Ballston Spa, N.Y.
William Barrack, 68, and his son,
Recent hot conditions have dried out much of Wyoming’s forests and officials say the fire season is starting to crank up.
Since Thursday, a forest fire had burned nearly 1,000
Responding to an increase in rabies cases, officials in North Carolina?s Mitchell and Yancey counties are advising residents to keep food and pets away from wild animals.
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The State Fair Arena in Oklahoma City, Okla., and the horse barns at the arena will get an additional $20 million in improvements.
The City Council approved the expenditure because of higher-than-expected hotel tax revenues.
The
A workman on the site of Arsenal’s old stadium in North London might have found evidence to back up a piece of club folklore.
It was long rumored that a horse and cart had fallen into a pit while the original North Bank stand of Highbury
Wisconsin has more human cases of lyme disease than many other states.
A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Wisconsin is among ten states that account for 93% of all cases nationwide.
More than
A barn fire at an award-winning American Saddlebred farm in south-central Kentucky killed 24 horses, the owner said Wednesday.
Seven colts and 17 mares were in the barn at 3-T Farm in Allen County when the fire broke out Tuesday morning,
It’s a story Saudi Arabia decided was worth $2.3 million to share with horse enthusiasts in the United States.
Every Thoroughbred can trace its lineage back to one of three 17th Century Arabian stallions–a kinship that has always provided an
A 50% increase in the number of new Lyme Disease cases in humans reported in Massachusetts from 2004 to 2005 is prompting concerned public health officials to step up efforts to
A Michigan man was sentenced Tuesday to six to 22.5 years in prison after pleading no contest to a drunken-driving charge stemming from a hit-and-run crash that killed an 11-year-old Amish girl.
Before he was sentenced, Mark William Vandyke,
The owners of a 7-year-old horse that was shot and killed are offering a $5,000 reward for information that might help find a suspect.
Owner Patty Johnson of Mount Pleasant, Ind., first thought Twilight Smoky Sensation, a registered Tennessee
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