It had all the makings of a Hallmark movie, this tale of the girl and the goat. Instead, it’s made the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office and the Shasta District Fair look like Cruella de Vil after they ...

Jessica Long's 9-year-old daughter brought the family's goat, Cedar, to the Shasta District Fair and Event Center in Anderson, Calif., 150 miles north of Sacramento, last year to sell him for ...

The Shasta District Fair last year ended disastrously for a 9-year old girl and her goat. And it didn’t end so well for the Shasta County, Calif., fair officials who sent law enforcement hunting with ...

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A California girl was awarded $300,000 in a settlement with police who went out of their way to seize and butcher her beloved pet goat, according to reports. Jessica Long’s daughter — who was just 9 ...

The legal battle over a 9-year-old’s pet goat that was slaughtered after her family backed out of the Shasta District Fair continued this week after the California Department of Food and Agriculture ...

Nov 7 (Reuters) - When Cedar the goat was sold at a county fair livestock auction in 2022 for $902, he was earmarked to be slaughtered and served at a barbecue, even as his sobbing 9-year-old owner ...

A little girl decided to save him from the slaughterhouse. Then the sheriff showed up. Cedar the goat was sold at auction, destined for the dinner table. But his owner, a 9-year-old girl, loved him ...

A federal civil lawsuit alleges that sheriff's deputies from Shasta County, California, traveled across the state to seize a little girl's "beloved pet goat" for slaughter. New reporting details how ...

The Shasta District Fair last year ended disastrously for a 9-year old girl and her goat. And it didn’t end so well for the Shasta County fair officials who sent law enforcement hunting with a search ...