Fox 19, can you find a more appropriate selection of local stories to highlight or are you going for the sleazy viewers on the Internet?
Update Aug. 8: Good news, bad news. The story about the pit bull is gone, but the replacements are no better than the originals:
Do I really want to read about a teenager being raped in June? (Note that this screen snippet is from August.)
Update Aug. 9: It looks like I updated too soon. The woman and her friendly pit bull are back along with a father and daughter in an incestuous relationship:
At least now it's clear that this is provided by a service.
Update Aug. 18: I have won this battle. I installed AdBlock for Chrome, Safari and Opera on my Safari browser and below is the current result. AdBlock has two modes, which are combined by default: You can use a list of advertising web sites that should be blocked or you can train it to block specific ads. I turned off the lists and am just using the training. That way the normal, reasonable ads show up while I can block the ads mentioning sex with pit bulls in Las Vegas. (Whatever happened to "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?")
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