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In Courtrooms, Therapy Dogs Help Crime Victims and Witnesses Testify

A wrenching scene played out in a Brooklyn courtroom courtroom on Tuesday, June 9, as a 30-year-old woman described her and her five-year-old daughter’s horrific experience of being held captive for five months in 2012, bound by duct tape and repeatedly assaulted. As the woman gave her testimony, recalling some of the most traumatic experiences […]

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New Yorkers Can Find Their Own ‘Superheroes’ When They Adopt a Pet from a Shelter

Adopters Assemble! This weekend, millions of Americans packed movie theaters to see Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, but New Yorkers can be heroes, too, if they’re looking to take in a homeless animal. Animal Care and Control of New York City (ACandC) is hosting an adoption event. For just a $20 fee, locals can adopt a […]