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.

Robert Kahn of Bantam, arrested in the alleged dog attack in Ridgefield in April, leaves Danbury Superior Court Friday after a court appearance in June.

DANBURY — A Bantam man facing charges for an alleged dog attack in Ridgefield this spring has plead not guilty to the charges. Police said at the time that Kahn’s two dogs mauled the puppy and bit and scratched Marchison after he picked up his pet to protect it.

DYLAN SLAGLE/STAFF PHOTO Wakefield Valley Golf Club pro Scott Magee photographed July 13, 2010.

Dog-walking along Toronto’s Cherry Beach’s off-leash zone turned sombre Thursday night after owners learned someone literally tried to nail their pets.

There are various ways of making movie history. You can usher in the sound era, as Al Jolson did more than 80 years ago with The Jazz Singer. Or you can create an enduring Hollywood epic, as producer David O. Selznick did with Gone with the Wind.