Within a few weeks of starting the treatments, O’Neal was walking without gasping and talking without pausing to gobble air.
— Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
Before Heuermann changed his plea, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney asked him to confirm details surrounding each murder as members of the victims' families were heard gasping and audibly crying in the courtroom gallery.
Many of the cats were underweight with bones showing, and some suffering from respiratory infections were wheezing and had discharge around their eyes and noses.
— JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
Noah, however, couldn't run the length of a football field without wheezing.
In the mid-2000s, after getting the worst of it during a few hurricanes, the external panels had to be replaced, but they were faithfully reproduced down to the bull’s steam-puffing nostrils.
— Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
Hilton asked the same cigar-puffing audience Friday moments after Bianco spoke.
— Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2026
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