Ten–year–old Nick Kraft of Rochester has a new best friend, although he may not realize it yet. Last month, he and his entire family traveled to Tennessee where they spent a week training themselves to work with Nick's service dog named Bob.

HASTINGS -- There was a packed house for the 4-H Dog Show Saturday morning at the Adams County Fair in Hastings.

HASTINGS -- There was a packed house for the 4-H Dog Show Saturday morning at the Adams County Fair in Hastings.

Tom Pletcher said he once read a book that described golden retrievers as "the dog at the party with the lampshade on its head."

Jon Jones was a freshman at a junior college in Fort Dodge, Iowa, when some of the guys on the wrestling team decided to do what freshmen do and get tattoos. Jones settled on Chinese characters representing the initials of his sister, Carmen, who died of cancer when he was 12.