In his memoir, "Recollections of a Lifetime," writer Samuel Griswold Goodwin remembers growing up in Ridgefield in the early 1800s. One of the highlights, he wrote, was seeing huge flocks of passenger ...

A bizarre referendum result in Germany will lead to the mass slaughter of a town's pigeons. It's no secret that pigeons, which some liken to the rats of the skies, are known globally as a pest and are ...

Slaughtering animals for fun, often in the name of charity, is a distinctly odd enterprise – so much so that Pennsylvania is the only state that continues to allow it. A 1999 court ruling held that ...

The state Senate passed a bill that would ban pigeon shoots as well as make it illegal to raise and slaughter dogs and cats for human consumption. (File photo/Pennlive) The state Senate voted 36-12 on ...