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The first day of the Co. Limerick Coursing Club J.P. McManus Irish Cup, an annual meeting where greyhounds course hares with a €80 first prize at stake on Limerick Racecourse at Greenmount, Patrickswell, on Feb. 22, in Limerick, Ireland.

While I am certainly happy that these athletic greyhounds are muzzled up, it does strike me as somewhat vicious to make a poor hare run for its life while its pursuers are taunted with a feast that they will never get. The hare ends up terrified and the greyhounds hungry.  That said, the animals don’t get hurt and it looks like they are having a good time getting the exercise.

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This combo made from photos provided Wednesday, Aug. 11 by the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office shows, from left, Ryan Edward Dougherty, 21, Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 26, and Lee Grace Dougherty, 29. An FBI manhunt for the heavily armed siblings accused of shooting at a police officer in Florida and robbing a Georgia bank ended Wednesday with a police chase in Colorado, where shots were fired at officers before the suspects' car rolled and crashed into a guard rail.

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I am always fascinated with these police mugshots. Contrast that with the shot of Lee Grace Dougherty in court today. Full story.

Lee Grace Dougherty, 29, laughs while awaiting advisement at the Pueblo County Sherrif's Office detention center, Aug. 11, in Pueblo, Colo. Dougherty and two of her siblings are accused of shooting at police in Florida and robbing a bank in Georgia. The siblings were captured Wednesday in Colorado after crashing their car into a highway barrier during a high-speed chase.