The president of a since-shuttered Raleigh company that provided service dogs to those with medical concerns appeared in court on Friday, years after he was charged with fraud. Mark Mathis pleaded ...

An Apex man who once ran a nonprofit training service dogs admitted Friday he defrauded the families he claimed to help. Mark Christopher Mathis, 52, pleaded guilty to 50 counts of obtaining property ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — If a person misrepresents their pet dog as a service animal in South Dakota they would risk a Class 2 misdemeanor under a law proposed by Republican Sen. Taffy Howard of ...

My dog is a very good dog. Strangers stop in their tracks to meet him. Coffee shops, wine stores, and doormen hand out treats when he visits. He smiles. My dog, with his wide, caramel, human-like eyes ...

Many people believe that a certified emotional support animal is the same as a service dog. The confusion around these two distinct classes of trained animals abounds, and assuming the wrong ...