Iditarod officials disqualify musher for hitting dogs (Casper Star-Tribune)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A two-time runner-up has been disqualified from this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for abusing his dogs, race officials said.

Woman Mauled To Death By Own Dogs (KPRC Click2Houston.com via Yahoo! News)
A Friendswood woman was mauled to death by her own dogs, officials told KPRC Local 2.

Avalanche dogs to the rescue (Summit Daily News)
SUMMIT COUNTY - Some of the most skilled mountain-faring beings are not the local skiers and snowboarders, but rather certain lift-riding dogs that are in use at all of Summit’s ski areas.

Judge to decide jurisdiction in seized dogs case (The Times-Reporter)
A decision is expected in a few weeks in the court case that led to 76 dogs being seized from the Safe Harbor Doberman and Min Pin Rescue at Brightwood.

Deputies Say Woman Set Her Dogs On Saleswoman (The Tampa Tribune)
LAKELAND - When a saleswoman rang her doorbell, Amber Gilbert didn’t slam the door in her face. She commanded her dogs to attack the woman, according to an affidavit released by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office on Monday.

A New Dogs of the Dow (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance)
Larry MacDonald submits: A research paper to appear soon in the Journal of Finance shows a better way to apply the Dogs-of-the-Dow approach. It would have returned, say the authors, approximately twice the outperformance recorded by the old Dogs-of-the-Dow approach over the Dow Jones Index between 1983 and 2003.