The U.S. Postal Service reports five California cities rank among the top 25 in most dog attacks in the nation with Los Angeles in third place with 54 attacks.
San Diego is tied for 10th spot with 35 attacks, followed by Sacramento tied for 16th, with 22; Long Beach tied for 18th, with 20, and San Francisco, tied for 24th with 14.
That is nothing to bark about.
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AP TO CURB NAMING MINOR CRIME SUSPECTS. Associated Press says it no longer will name suspects in brief stories about minor crimes in which there is little chance AP will provide coverage beyond the initial arrest.
GIRL SCOUTS FACE UNSOLD COOKIES. Because of the pandemic, Girl Scouts have 15 million boxes of unsold cookies. This will be felt by local councils and troops that depend on cookie sales to fund programming, travel, camps and other activities.
JUNIOR LAWYERS PAY RISES. Junior lawyers salaries at many top law firms are rising above $200,000, “following a year of record-breaking profits in the legal industry and competition to retain a workforce that has billed long hours at home during the pandemic,” reports The Wall Street Journal.
SENIORS SMACKED BY SCAMS. The FBI reports senior citizens lost almost $1 billion in scams last year. The shady activity was highest in California, Florida and Texas.
GRANDMOTHER, 92, GETS DIPLOMA. A Utah grandmother, Barbara Stanley, picks up her high school diploma --- at age 92. She grew up during the Great Depression, put ambitions on hold to help her sisters raise their kids, then married early in her 20s, giving birth to 17 children (eight boys and nine girls).
MISSISSIPPI CRUISES RETURN. American Queen, one of the largest cruise lines operating on American waterways, resumes offering cruises at reduced capacity and with enhanced COVID-19 safety protocols, on two of its boats sailing the Mississippi, Ohio and Cumberland rivers.
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