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To the Bock family of Chester Springs, the Bernese mountain dogs Fiona and Argus were happy, loving pets. To neighbor Gabriel Pilotti, they were apparently pests. And when he found them loose among his sheep last week, he shot them dead. "It was just really vicious," Mary Bock said. The dogs had not touched the sheep. Pilotti could not be reached for comment. As of Thursday evening, the Chester County District Attorney's Office and the West Vincent Township police still were trying to determine what happened the morning of Feb. 12 in a part of Chester County where sheep, horses, and alpacas amble in yards larger than the patches of green in more urbanized suburbs and smaller than more rural farms.

THEY ARE burly, tattooed men with soft spots for neglected animals, but members of Justice Rescue took the outlaw-biker mystique too far and broke the law, authorities say. According to the Pennsylvania SPCA, Justice Rescue members Russell Wayne "Wolf" Harper and Robert John "House" Lewis were arrested Tuesday and charged with impersonating a law-enforcement officer, theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy for allegedly taking a pit bull in...

A PHOTO of Emmett Till's casket that I saw on Facebook last week chilled me to my core. I was reminded of that tragedy from our nation's history of a 14-year-old boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi during the summer of 1955, who offended a white woman and who wound up paying with his life. Next, I found myself staring at a photo of the Bryant Grocery and Meat Market, where Till and the shop owner's wife, Carolyn Bryant, whom Till is said to have whistled at, had encountered each other.

"Shame on you Hospital and whole America!" "You can not be so arrogant as Croatia can be generous!" "How can you be so cruel????!!???????" "America has always been laughing matter in entire world with their 'pay for health' policy . . . " "Go f--- yourself!" The Facebook page for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was overflowing this morning with nasty comments related to the case of a little Croatian girl with cancer. Nora Situm, 5, has acute lymphoblastic leukemia, according to reports, and, to try to save her life, a campaign in the economically distressed Balkan country collected contributions from thousands of people, raising $600,000 to pay for experimental treatments.

Workers who gripe about the boss or their colleagues on Facebook may again be at risk of getting fired unless a U.S. appeals court decision is reversed. The National Labor Relations Board ruled last year that employees can use social media to complain or comment on management, without retribution. The decision was among 220 issued in 2012 by the five-member board, three of whose appointments were ruled invalid last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington. "It puts all of the board's actions into question," said Jeffrey Hirsch, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. "If you're an employee who's been fired, and you want your job back, you're not going to get it until this is resolved.

THE SEARCH continues for a beloved New Hope bartender who disappeared without a trace over the weekend. Sarah Majoras, 39, was last seen crossing the bridge from New Hope to Lambertville, N.J., on foot - headed toward her home in Lambertville - about 2 a.m. Saturday after she left John and Peter's Bar, on Main Street in New Hope, according to the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office. She was reported missing about 2 p.m. Saturday. Majoras, who works at John and Peter's, is 5 feet 4, 140 pounds, and has blond hair and blue eyes.

NOW THIS IS a Rocky Mountain low. A Trenton man flew from Philadelphia International Airport to Denver on Friday to meet what he believed was an underage teen, according to Colorado authorities. Instead, Edward Gutierrez, 38, was met by Colorado investigators who charged him with luring a child and Internet sexual exploitation of a child, according to the Jefferson County, Colo., District Attorney's Office. Gutierrez came to the attention of Colorado authorities when he accepted a friend request on Facebook from a 13-year-old girl in November, police said.

It was only a little hand tremor. That's what the doctors said. All kids shake a bit, get a little clumsy. Maybe 7-year-old Eli Vivian was dehydrated. Maybe his motor skills lagged a little behind those of his two older brothers. Not to worry. Not so easy - for a mother. So Becky Vivian kept watching. Everything Eli did got the mom once-over, even a potato sack race at Oaks Elementary School. While his classmates stepped into their bags and hopped away, Eli was left behind.

FORMER Atlanta Braves star centerfielder Andruw Jones was free on bond after being arrested in suburban Atlanta early Tuesday on a battery charge, according to jail records. Around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, police responded to a call for a domestic dispute between Jones and his wife in Duluth, Ga. Gwinnett County Detention Center records say Jones was booked into the county jail around 3:45 a.m. and had been released on $2,400 bond by 11 a.m. Once one of the premier players in the big leagues, Jones broke into the majors with the Braves in 1996 and won 10 consecutive Gold Gloves from 1998-2007 as their centerfielder.

NEWTOWN, CONN. - Opening a long and almost unbearable procession of grief, Newtown began burying its dead Monday. Two funeral homes filled with mourners for Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto, the first of the 20 children killed in last week's school massacre to receive funerals. Newtown, a community of 27,000 people, will face many more funerals over the next few days, just as other towns are getting ready for the holidays. Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed an executive order Monday clearing the way for the Sandy Hook students to use Chalk Hill School, which has not been used as a school since June 2011, in nearby Monroe.