Tag no. 10-3020 With her devilish antics, Angelous is everything but an angel.

Miche Broad, stepmother of England cricket star Stuart, tells of her battle with the tragic condition.

It’s a crime targeting defenseless animals. Thieves are stealing puppies in Chicagoland from houses, pet stores, even animal shelters. CBS 2′s Pamela Jones reports.

A puppy stolen from the Porter County Animal Shelter earlier this week was recovered Friday. The Porter County Sheriff’s Department arrested Michelle Baugh of Valparaiso for stealing the 6-week-old puppy. Police say the 39-year-old woman admitted to stealing the puppy on Tuesday. She was arrested for Class D felony theft. Surveillance cameras showed a woman removing the border collie mix from …

The Ojai-based National Disaster Search Dog Foundation’s fundraising efforts to build a national training center in Santa Paula got a big boost recently from a $1 million challenge grant from the Wood-Claeyssens Foundation.Janet Reineck, SDF’s development director, said the board of directors has set a June 31 deadline to raise the $1 million in donations needed to equal the grant.“We’re looking …

The Conway Police Department has released more information regarding a Dec. 10 incident that has led to the first cruelty to an animal charge in Faulkner County since the offense was upgraded from a misdemeanor to a felony in 2009.

VALPARAISO | A Valparaiso area woman has been arrested inconnection with the theft of an ill puppy from the Porter CountyAnimal Shelter.

Reactions to double snow storm & PHOTO GALLERY The US Postal Service suspended mail delivery Friday for a 12-county area, including Wayne, Pike and Susquehanna counties. NOTE: Readers are welcome to send us their photos of snow scenes, snowmen, sledding and other subjects related to the snow storms this past week. Please state where and about when it was taken, and names of people that might be …

Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather than the multi-site WordPress MU. To those people, good news! A little over a week ago Andy Peatling, founder and lead developer of BuddyPress, announced the release of BuddyPress 1.2, which can be used on single installations of WordPress. Congratulations, BuddyPress! And congratulations to all the people who’ve been waiting with bated breath for this to happen.

The first thing I thought when I heard the news was, “Awesome! Now everyone can put BuddyPress on their site if they want it.” The second thought I had was, “Shoot! Average WordPress users won’t want to try BuddyPress if they have to switch their site themes over to the BuddyPress default theme just to try it out.” The third thought I had was, “That can’t be right. I’ll ask Andy.”

As it turned out, you could keep your current theme with BuddyPress if you added a couple of files and made a few file edits. There was even a link on the BuddyPress site to download the necessary files. That still seemed a little clunky, though, so Andy, super awesome guy that he is, went ahead and made a plugin to get you started. The BuddyPress Template Pack can be installed directly from your WordPress admin (Plugins > Add New), and will walk you through the theme additions step by step.*

Now you can use BuddyPress with your single site installation of WordPress, and you can keep your existing theme. Seriously, could BuddyPress have made it any easier for you to add social networking to your site? I know I can’t wait to try it out this weekend, how about you?

* Don’t forget to install BuddyPress itself, or the template pack plugin won’t do anything!

Magazine publisher Jennifer Brauns of Frisco’s Bill’s Ranch knows a niche when she sees one. Now heading into her third year of publishing Mile High Dog, a 32-page slick mag targeting Denver area dog owners and those offering canine services, with this tagline: “Unleashing quality products and services for Denver dogs.” Every issue includes articles by veterinarians and trainers as well as local …