About 50 wolves have been taken so far in Montana's wolf hunting season. Carolyn Sime, wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, says the state may reach its quota of 75 by the time the season ends Nov. 29. This year's gray wolf hunt,

It's 10:35 a.m. on an April day at the headquarters of Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida. A woman in a gray uniform is busy dispatching personnel to the scene of a car accident in the preserve that occurred just moments before I walk in the door.

Many of you are already aware that there are groups associated with animal research who pose as Rescue and/or Transport Groups periodically with the full intent of stealing the animals in transport and delivering and/or selling them for animal

The exceptional part of the story, Jones said, is that the dog had never met or even seen the people it quickly jumped to defend.

Parent birds are the parents of broiler chickens, birds who are raised for their flesh. The fertilized eggs of the broiler breeding parent birds are removed daily from the shed and put into incubators for hatching. They never see their offspring who

Call it a victory for scratching-post manufacturers: In preliminary actions, the Los Angeles City Council and the Beverly Hills City Council have voted unanimously to approve a ban on cat declawing in their respective cities

Veal calves are brutally treated their whole lives, long before they reach a slaughter house like Bushway. Veal calves are those male calves that are unwanted and removed from their mothers immediately after birth; they are confined often by tethers

A Long Island woman is accused of kidnapping and murdering neighbors' pets with the help of her children, and burring them in her backyard, sources said. Sharon McDonough, 43, was arrested Saturday and charged with animal cruelty. Authorities have

As Harvard Prof. Gates learned, it is important to watch one's manners with police. The Statesman printed a transcript: OFFICER: Do you feel this? CITIZEN: Yes, sir. OFFICER: Do you feel that? That's my *#> CITIZEN: Okay. OFFICER: -Taser up your a%*.

Search teams combing the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona found a body on Saturday believed to be that of a missing 20-year-old hiker, the National Park Service said.