TC DIDN’T arrive at our house with any kind of ceremony. There was no invitation, no genteel introduction at which we sized up each other for suitability, no exchange of greeting at all.

The following are excerpts from the Reading public safety logs. The logs are available to the public. Arrests are not posted online, and can be found in the print edition of The Reading Advocate.

CONCORDIA — A Concordia woman was arrested Wednesday in connection with what police say was a made-up story about how a girl, 14, was bitten in the face by a dog Friday while she was walking to school.

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Boxer attacked William Snyder’s much smaller dog A 50-year-old Ellicott City man received probation before judgment and 30 days of home detention Thursday for pointing his shotgun at a man whose boxer dog got loose and attacked his white bichon frise in March.

Boxer attacked William Snyder’s much smaller dog A 50-year-old Ellicott City man received probation before judgment and 30 days of home detention Thursday for pointing his shotgun at a man whose boxer dog got loose and attacked his white bichon frise in March.

Duke, the 10-month old brindled boxer dog, will be returned to Donald Chrystie today after a battle over ownership. The dog was taken away from his home after a Utica investigator allegedly saw Theodore Chrystie, beating it in the back of a sport-utility vehicle in the Big Lots parking lot.

An unidentified white man was struck and killed by a train at about 11:19 p.m. on Wednesday. The man’s body was discovered about a-half mile north of the CSX-owned tracks intersection with Four Mile Road said Larry Brock, Richmond police chief. The man appeared to have been sitting on the tracks in the area of Four Mile Road, Brock said.  

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A man accused of shooting at his ex-girlfriend after a physical fight between the two pleaded guilty to lesser charges Wednesday in Madison District Court. Kevin Carter, 24, of Berea Road, had been charged with first-degree wanton endangerment, but as part of a plea agreement, he pleaded guilty to criminal attempt to commit fourth-degree assault, a Class A misdemeanor. Had Carter been convicted …