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Members of the Racine Police Department SWAT team move in on a house on Victory Avenue where Kurt Hanson had barricaded himself after making threats against neighbors with a machete on Nov.1 2014.

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE – An aggressive dog was shot and killed by members of the county’s SWAT Team during an authorized search of a Goshen man’s home, Cape May County Prosecutor Robert L. Taylor said ...

A SWAT team raided a property in DeLand early Wednesday morning, rescuing over two dozen dogs who were chained up there, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.

SWAT-team members were sent to a neighborhood in Racine, Wis., when Kim Polk called authorities after a dispute over dog feces led a neighbor to threaten to attack her with a bow and arrow and a ...