WINNEBAGO COUNTY, Illinois (WREX) - Animal Services crews caught and impounded six horses and one pony from a home in Winnebago County.

By TABATHA MILLER • The Stewart Houston Times • October 21, 2009

DOVER — The Stewart County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an animal cruelty case involving 54 horses and other animals, most of them malnourished.

By LAUREN DONOVAN Bismarck Tribune
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:00 am

The loud whup-whup-whup of helicopter blades pounded out over Theodore Roosevelt National Park near Medora Tuesday for the second day of the park's wild horse roundup.

A tick-borne disease known as equine piroplasmosis has been confirmed on a ranch in South Texas. Additional testing is being conducted to determine the extent of infection. Horses on the ranch are quarantined to their premises, and a thorough disease investigation is underway.

Unlike the 180 existing, unmanned federal wild-horse areas, the new, staffed preserves, including one in the East and one in the Midwest, would seek tourists.