The Animals News

Unlike so many of his contemporaries who are beating a well-worn path around comeback trails and the oldie circuits, Eric Burdon is one vintage rock-'n'-roller who has never hung 'em up.

Eight people were arrested Wednesday in an interstate dog fighting ring. Officers and agents executed a federal arrest warrant in Panola and Gregg counties where nine dogs, mostly pit bull terriers, were seized during a search of property in rural Panola County, according to a release from U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.

When A.A. Milne wrote the 44 poems in "When We Were Very Young," he had in mind looking back to the time when Winnie the Pooh's friend Christopher Robin was around 6 years old and just about to enter school.

What: Third annual Walk with the Animals. When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Who: Everyone is welcome.

IT comes as no surprise that John Steel looks back on the 1960s with huge fondness, days when along with The Beatles and The Stones, he rode high in the charts.

Seven lumbering elephants - four of them newcomers - are the star attractions in the San Diego Zoo's biggest, most costly expansion in its 90-plus years.But such multimillion dollar displays like the city's $45 million Elephant Odyssey are prompting an outcry from animal rights activists who view similar expansions in Denver, Los Angeles, ...

Cumberland Grange, 2187, met last Monday. Thank you notes were received from the Cumberland Alumni Association and from Betty Hedge who won the hanging basket the Grange provided for a door prize at the Cumberland Alumni Banquet.

Meet the bird that bops to the Backstreet Boys. In this Oct. 16, 2007 photo, Snowball, a medium sulfur-crested Eleonora cockatoo, dances to the... In this Oct.

The first Keighley Krawl festival attracted more than 1,300 music fans to the town centre on Sunday.

As the lead singer of the Animals, Eric Burdon was one of the British Invasion's most distinctive vocalists, with a searingly powerful blues-rock voice.

"San Franciscan Nights" is a 1967 song performed by Eric Burdon and The Animals, with words and music by the group's members, Eric Burdon, Vic Briggs, John Weider, Barry Jenkins, and Danny McCulloch.

THE capital's showpiece jazz and blues festival will expand to new venues, as organisers attempt to attract bigger audiences to the long-running event.

Noah's Ark will issue 100 spay/neuter certificates at 8 a.m. today at Cat's Meow, 124 S. Canyon St.

WAR is best known for their songs Low Rider, The Cisco Kid, and Why Can't we be friends.

The big top is coming to the Cow Palace and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is gearing up for a five-day protest.

May 21 1943 Hilton Valentine, guitarist with the Animals, is born Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine in North Shields, Northumberland, England.

Today is Thursday, May 21, the 141st day of 2009. There are 224 days left in the year.

In the pantheon of animal odd couples , these two belong up there with Kermit and Miss Piggy .

KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 -- Dya Singh, a Sikh Musician based in Melbourne and Vic Briggs, who is now known as Vikram Singh, a former member of the 60s pop band "The Animals", kicked off their 38.2km walk from Taman Tasik Permaisuri Cheras to Melaka.

As people, they'd be more impressive than many. That they're animals will blow you away.