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La. chimpanzees get pregnant despite round of vasectomies

SHREVEPORT, La.

Female chimpanzees are going on birth control, and male chimps are getting another round of vasectomies at a sanctuary in Louisiana after workers discovered two surprise pregnancies.

The director of the retirement home for research chimpanzees says an employee noticed one of the chimpanzees, Flora, had given birth on Valentine’s Day.

Linda Brent, the head of Chimp Haven, says that prompted pregnancy tests for seven female chimpanzees. An ultrasound confirmed that 42-year-old Ginger is pregnant and due in the summer.

Brent says five males will get another, more-complex vasectomy. She is not sure if at least one of them was able to grow back tubes that originally were cut out or if the initial operation was not done as well as it could have been.

Police: Man faked gas leak to oust ‘other’ man

DAWSON, Pa.

Police have charged a western Pennsylvania man with falsely reporting a natural-gas leak, apparently because he was trying to determine if his girlfriend was hiding another man in her residence in an adjoining building.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for 36-year-old Michael Sanner of Dawson, who was charged Sunday, a day after police and fire crews responded to his girlfriend’s residence.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says the woman told police that Sanner threatened to report a gas leak when she refused to let him into her residence Saturday afternoon. That’s when police went to Sanner’s residence and determined the reported leak was false.

Police say Sanner told them he made the false report because he believed the woman had another man in the apartment.

Sanner doesn’t have a listed number.

Faint barking leads to dog stuck in Pa. cistern

WAYNESBURG, Pa.

Four days of faint barking finally led neighbors to a dog trapped in an unused cistern under a house in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Finally, on Monday, Matthew Burris tells the Observer-Reporter of Washington, Pa., he located the source of the barking in his Waynesburg neighborhood and contacted the Greene County Humane Society.

Jane Gapen, the group’s director, says the dog apparently pushed through the lattice under a porch and fell through some rotted boards into the cistern below. Police say the home’s owner had lived there more than 20 years and didn’t know there was an unused cistern under his front porch.

Officials believe the beagle mix might have been chasing a squirrel or rabbit before falling into the 10-foot-deep cistern.

Associated Press