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The prosecutor refiled the charges, but they were thrown out in March when Common Pleas Judge Patrick McGrath ruled that Barnes could not be tried twice on the same charges. Dog killer gets 4 months FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A man accused of burying nine newborn Rottweiler puppies alive iwas sentenced Friday to four months in jail and barred from I owning a dog or cat for five years. 1 Robert Homrighous stuffed his 'dog's puppies in a bag and buried them in his back yard on Jan. 15, police said.

Three of the pups died. Sheba and the six survivors were adopted after hundreds of people respond-: ed to reports of their plight i Homrighous, 42, had pleaded no contest to animal cruelty charges. I Circuit Judge William Dimitrou-; leas also put Homrighous on probation for five years, fined him $1,250 and ordered him to undergo psychological evaluation and, if necessary, counseling. No tardy pupils allowed DAYTON, Ohio The city school district wants students to get the message: If you arrive too late too bad. Go home.

To reduce the 12 tardiness rate of its 27,000 middle- and high school students, Dayton schools will turn away students who are at least 45 minutes late and don't have a parent or doctor's note with them. The policy starts tomorrow. Students who won't leave may be charged with trespassing, punishable by up to 30 days in jail and a $250 fine. Wide butt beats big gut TEMPE, Ariz. The battle of the bulge once limited to combating calories is expanding to a debate over where it's best to carry those extra pounds.

According to researchers at Arizona State University, women are better off with a well-cushioned fanny than a well-rounded tummy it comes to staving off heart attacks. the researchers don't completely understand the phenomenon, and they plan a study involving-overweight women that they 5hope will end the mystery, "Essentially what I'm trying to is understand some of the Jnechanisms that regulate metabolism," said Pamela Swan, an assistant professor of exercise science. I Her research team will begin a jtudy next month to find out why -fat cells in the stomach area tend io increase a person's risk of high llood pressure and diabetes, and j-aise levels of blood fat Overweight women who carry iheir fat around the hips and thighs Jend to have fewer health risks, Swan said. Lest the "girthful" give iip hope, there is one benefit to fceing fat up front A big belly is asier to get rid of than a wide bottom. Swan is recruiting 30 female volunteers all must be at least 20 pounds, overweight, healthy and premenopausal.

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