Even though about 1400 mountain lions live in Southern California and the Central Coast, spotting one wandering around a residential area is quite rare. Even though San Dimas police urged residents to ...

Rocker Billy Idol once had to be subdued by Thai police with a tranquilizer dart after he partied for three weeks in a Bangkok hotel suite. Billy Idol did go to Thailand in 1989 on a self-described, ...

In the movies, when an animal gets shot with a tranquilizer dart, it succumbs quickly. That’s not how it goes with Scrim, the Crescent City’s celebrated escape-artist dog. When Scrim was stung with ...

State wildlife agents said they had no choice but to kill a cougar in a Bossier City neighborhood after a tranquilizer dart didn't work fast enough. The cougar was spotted in a tree Sunday afternoon ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—In order for an animal tranquilizer gun to work, it has to fire darts at a rather particular speed. Too slow, and the dart bounces off the animal without injecting the sedative. Too ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — In a bear-y unusual start to the day, a bear was spotted hanging out in a tree in Albany Tuesday morning. After several hours, the animal has now been safely removed from its ...

Re “The SDPD’s freeway fiasco” (Dec. 12): It seems to me that the proper response to someone threatening to jump onto a freeway should be to:1) Get the cushion into position.2) Tell the potential ...

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. — Nearly four years after Suzanne Morphew was last seen in Chafee County, new details have surfaced regarding her death. Her remains were found last fall in Saguache County and ...

It was 5 a.m. on a July morning on Banks Street. Using a tranquilizer dart gun that looked like an assault rifle, a volunteer veterinarian drew a bead on a wire-haired terrier mix named Scrim. The dog ...