feMan's best friend apparently isn't averse to making a meal out of a man. Two pugs feasted on the flesh of their owner

BILLINGS, Mont. -- As efforts falter to save North America's largest freshwater fish - a toothless beast leftover from the days of dinosaurs - officials hope to stave off extinction by sending more water hurtling down a river so the fish can spawn in

To this day, Walter Hempel isn't 100 percent sure what crossed in front of his car five years ago on U.S. 23 outside of Rogers City. But he cataloged what he saw with the hunter's eyes he's used in the wilds of Michigan for most of his 80 years

-- Two people and 65 horses were killed Saturday when a blaze engulfed a barn at an Ohio harness racing track, a state fire official said

During its eight-month undercover investigation of the University of Utah's laboratories, PETA discovered that on March 13, 2009, the school purchased a gentle orange tabby cat named Robert for $15 from the Davis County Animal Shelter. Robert was used

Dozens of wild horse advocates plan to go before a federal advisory panel here on Monday to try to persuade public land managers to change their plan to relocate thousands of free-roaming mustangs from the West to preserves elsewhere

Marine experts cut loose a yearling humpback whale yesterday that had been entangled in heavy plastic rope near the Hawaiian Islands.

BOISE, Idaho -- A central Idaho man has been charged with four misdemeanors after police say took his neighbor's dog to an elementary school playground and slit its throat

Tennessee has relied on The Humane Society of the United States over the last two years for nine rescue missions -- more times than the nonprofit has been called in to assist in any other state in the country.

Allow me to introduce myself. I taught English for 12 years at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. Before that, I was a juvenile probation officer in Baltimore for five years. Since 1990, I have run United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organi