Two former University of Buffalo football players face animal cruelty charges after a video on social media allegedly showed them injuring a dog. Blake Hiligh, 19, and Zach Pilarcek, 20 ...

Two now-dismissed University of Buffalo football players were charged Thursday in the alleged beating of a miniature poodle with footage of the twisted animal abuse posted on social media ...

A Goodyear man and former Arizona State University football player received a six-month jail ... Patrick Zane Thompson, 42, pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and assault charges on Aug. 25.

Flynn announced Thursday that two former University at Buffalo football players were arraigned on an animal cruelty charge. The defendants, 19-year-old Blake I. Hiligh and 20-year-old Zachary F.

Two former University at Buffalo football players are facing jail time after they allegedly beat a dog using a leather belt over "damage" the animal caused to a couch belonging to one of the ...