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Eric Mills, Action for Animals

Eric Mills, Coordinator, Action for Animals Both the Livermore and Rowell Ranch rodeos feature a brutal, sometimes fatal and blatantly sexist event called the Wild Cow Milking Contest. The cows are still lactating BEEF cattle, not dairy. As such, they are unused to being handled at all, much less this roughly. One of these frantic cows jumped the fence at the 2014 Rowell Ranch Rodeo, and suffered a broken neck and prolapsed eye. Another broke a leg at the 2004 Livermore rodeo. Both were euthanized, leaving orphaned calves. The Hayward Area Recreation & Park District (H.A.R.D.) boasts one of t...

COMMENTARY: 'It takes a village' for Ron Mathias Tournament

View Comments It's Rodeo week in Redding and that means bulls and bucking broncos along with community activities celebrating the western way of life, including mock holdups, a community pancake breakfast and guys with yellow shirts and green bandanas. But Janel Scott has an alternate message for fans of ropin' and ridin'. The Redding woman wants the Redding Rodeo to stop. She says the annual competition and celebration of western heritage is cruel to animals. "Somebody's got to take a stand for these animals. Because the closer it gets, the more emotional I get about it, because it's just...

WOBURN - A judge refused to set bail for two men accused of an ambush-style murder of a Roslindale man after he ate dinner at Jake N' Joe's Sports Grille on Saturday night. According to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan's office, 34-year-old Plymouth resident Pauliasky Jean Francois and Hyde Park's Eric Mills, 29, were both ordered held without bail yesterday during their arraignment hearing in Woburn District Court on murder charges. Both men are accused of gunning down 26-year-old Lloyd Borgella as he sat in his car outside of the popular Mishawum Road sports bar at approximately 9 p....