Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A police response to reports of a raccoon behaving erratically turned into a gruesome public spectacle in a Mass. town on ...

A New York police officer opened fire at a suspect Thursday on Rockaway Beach, killing his target: a raccoon whose behavior had led someone to call 911 to report a "vicious animal." The officer is on ...

Massachusetts animal rights advocates are sounding the alarm after a local police department in Worcester County euthanized a raccoon described as “disoriented” and “wobbling” on Christmas. The ...

An Indiana man hunting raccoons died over the weekend after a bullet ricocheted off a tree and struck him in the abdomen, according to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.