The Latest: Patty Hearst picks up a new prize at Westminster

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the Westminster Kennel Club dog show (all times local):

11 a.m.

Patty Hearst has picked up another prize at Westminster, an award of merit for a French bulldog she co-owns called Tuggy.

Her Frenchies have done well here in the past and often have been "in the ribbons," as dog fanciers like to say.

Hearst sat ringside for the breed judging, a day after CNN debuted the start of its docuseries on the famed heiress titled "The Radical Story of Patty Hearst."

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A German shepherd that survived a brutal highway accident a few years is out of Westminster, and his show career might be over.

Fanucci was unable to walk into the ring Monday, the first day of two days of America's most prestigious dog show.

His owners think he might have been nipped by a playful puppy recently, or perhaps he shook his ear too hard and broke a blood vessel.

The 5-year-old was considered by many the nation's top German shepherd. But his left ear, the one closest to the judge, bubbled up and knocked him out of the competition.

Fanucci's right rear leg was shattered in 2014 when he jumped out of a van that was being towed. He was injured so badly his owners considered euthanizing him.

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