• TRANSIENT ARRESTED IN DOG DEATH: BELMONT (AP) — A man has been arrested after his German shepherd was found unresponsive in a hot truck in the San Francisco Bay Area and later died. Belmont police say Joseph Regis Jr., a 50-year-old transient, was taken into custody on Monday at a motel on suspicion of animal cruelty. Capt. Patrick Halleran tells the San Jose Mercury News officers were called to the motel parking lot in the morning after someone spotted the dog in a pickup.