DURHAM, NC — The family that trained Ripken The Bat Dog — best known for fetching bats and football kicking tees during sporting events in North Carolina — says the black Labrador has died.

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The family that trained Ripken The Bat Dog — best known for fetching bats and football kicking tees during sporting events in North Carolina — says the black Labrador has ...

Ripken the bat dog, a black labrador retriever who fetched the hearts of sports fans across North Carolina, died on New Year’s Day. The O’Donnell family, owners of Ripken, announced the ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — An hourslong police standoff in Myrtle Beach ended peacefully Friday afternoon when a man and a woman came out of a residence in the 1200 block of Rosehaven Drive.

Ripken joined the rest of the state’s mascots at the game. “It was an incredibly humbling experience and representative of exactly how much Ripken meant to the people of his home state,” the ...