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EAST BRIDGEWATER — A 31-year-old East Bridgewater woman who was trying to shoot a raccoon accidentally shot her self on Cape Cod late Wednesday night, authorities said.

Along Duluth roadside, road-striping crew delivers a final insult At least one Howard Gnesen Road traveler said she wishes someone on the road crew had taken the time to clear the way before the striping truck came through this week. At least one Howard Gnesen Road traveler said she wishes someone on the road crew had taken the time to clear the way before the striping truck came through this week. Patty Donaldson of Gnesen Township said she’d seen the dead raccoon in the roadway near South Road, north of Arrowhead Road, since early this week. She said she’s been...

Seventy-five years ago, Key Underwood and his raccoon-hunting dog Troop had a connection. Years of training and a deep relationship make human and canine a seamless hunting unit. The two can share a special bond. So when old Troop died, Underwood buried him on the crest of a hill hidden away in the lush countryside near Cherokee, Ala. It was Underwood's favorite hunting spot. He marked the grave with an old chimney stone he chiseled with a hammer and screwdriver. That was the start of Coon Dog Cemetery, according to Franky Hatton, who hunts in this area with his Bluetick...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation official says a crew couldn't avoid painting over a dead raccoon when they put new double-yellow lines on a western Pennsylvania road last week. But the Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown reports Thursday that a motorist pointed out the mistake before it could be cleaned up. Sean McAfee tells the newspaper he almost wrecked his motorcycle because he was laughing so hard when he saw the freshly painted road kill in Johnstown on Aug. 2.

Two women pleaded (to) involvement in a racially-motivated coonspiracy to interfere with an African family’s housing rights by hanging a dead raccoon on the family’s (home's porch?), the Justice Department announced. The defendants face a 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for conspiracy to deprive (a) person of civil rights, and one year in prison and a $100,000 fine for violating the Fair Housing Act... Billy Pratt, and Joshua Wall, previously(copped a) plea, guilty for their involvement in the conspiracy.

SHENANGO TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A woman in Shenango Township said she has seen a raccoon with its face stuck inside a jar for four days. Tammy Yakubic said she is worried that if it doesn't get help soon, the raccoon will die. Yakubic called the Pennsylvania Game Commission, but the animal is up too high in a tree for it to intervene. "Their hands were tied, unless the animals would actually come down to the ground, which he has not. I mean, this is going on four days now, so I didn't know what else to do," Yakubic said.

REDFIELD, Iowa -- A rural Redfield man is being treated for two gunshot wounds after an attempt to shoot a raccoon caught in a live trap backfired.

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Police in Vermont say a woman who might have been angry about a dead raccoon left on a street took its bloody carcass to City Hall and angrily slammed it against the building’s doors. Burlington police say the woman left the raccoon’s body outside City Hall before walking off one morning two weeks ago.

Who among us hasn’t barbecued a raccoon in a Tennessee parking lot and then gotten caught up in a meth bust? On Monday, Memphis, Tenn., police arrested 26-year-old Adam Eubank on suspicion of manufacturing methamphetamine after his brother, Alex Eubank, held a late-night critter cookout outside an apartment complex. That cookout drew the attention of the police. Local TV channel KSDK interviewed the men’s less-than-terrified neighbors to get to the bottom of the story. “Pretty shocked,” neighbor Shelton Russell said, with something akin to a smile. “I… I mean, it’s a raccoon, I don’t know. Where’d they find it?”

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Tennessee police said they got a shock on Saturday when they discovered a wild raccoon in the car of a Parkersburg man arrested for streaking at a NASCAR event. Joshua Greene, 27, was naked when officers arrested him in a local subdivision in Bristol, Tenn., said Bristol Police Capt. Matt Austin. Multiple witnesses called police after Greene went streaking through Pit Row Market, where concerts were being held for the weekend's races, Austin said. During the investigation, officers were surprised when they saw that Greene was keeping a live raccoon confined in the backseat of his car,...

NASCAR fans got an eyeful over the weekend in Bristol, Tenn., when they spotted a man streaking across a busy parking lot near the track. Police said they arrested Joshua Greene, 27, from Parkersburg, W.Va., for streaking through the lot off Route 394 Saturday afternoon.

SALT LAKE CITY— Investigators say a raccoon caused a 10-acre grass fire in a Salt Lake City industrial area Friday morning. The fire started at about 4:40 a.m. Friday near 1700 South and Frontage Road, which runs along State Route 201. Crews say the raccoon climbed up a power pole, touched the power line and caught fire. The raccoon then fell to the ground, catching the grass on fire. Crews say the fire was burning fast and threatened several businesses in the area. Salt Lake City Fire Capt. Mark Bednarik says the fire burned about 10 acres. He also says...

O'FALLON, Mo. -- A mama dog in eastern Missouri adopted an orphaned baby raccoon as her own after losing a puppy in labor. "We saved her life, and she saved the raccoon's life," said Sharon Maag of the St. Peters rescue group, SNUGGLE, Special Needs Under Gentle Guided Love Everyday. "I think what goes around comes around. It's the circle of life. I think that's the way it goes. She's just returning the favor." Sasha the dog was likely headed for euthanization after being surrendered to a shelter with what appeared to be a large lump. The group SNUGGLE rescued...

Republican Congressman Steve King’s getting national attention for shooting a raccoon to death last week. King was at his rural western Iowa home on Tuesday, February 9 and posted a message on Twitter, saying he had killed a “Crazy Raccoon� trying to claw its way into his house. He used a gun called a “Desert Eagle.� “A Desert Eagle is an Israeli-made, semi-automatic pistol,� King says. In early February King’s wife told him a raccoon had tried to dig through a vent underneath the family room in their rural home. King was standing in that family room last week when...

- A raccoon, a possum and a feral cat were trapped overnight in separate cages in the Lakeland neighborhood where a 74-year-old woman was attacked by a pack of raccoons. The animals will be tested for rabies. Traps will remain in the neighborhood "until we feel as though the level of concern has certainly been addressed," Polk County sheriff's spokeswoman Donna Wood said today.....

A Ballard couple are in shock after they were attacked by a raccoon in their own backyard. Now, they're both undergoing painful rabies treatments as a precaution. Mark Silverstein says he still vividly remembers the sounds of his wife's screams and his dog's agonized yelps on the night of the attack. "I heard her screaming and the dog screaming. It was like blood-curdling, terror, like you've never heard before," he says. The bizarre episode began with a normal backyard potty break for their little dog, Bee. With no warning, a furry bandit went on a rampage, biting and clawing the...

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Alexander Kirilov, 44, was on a drunken weekend with pals when he lept on the terrified – but toothy – fur ball. “When I saw the raccoon I thought I’d have some fun,” he told stunned casualty surgeons in Moscow. Now Russian plastic surgeons are trying to restore his mangled manhood.

He rolls into the parking lot of Leon’s Thriftway in an old, maroon Impala with a trunk full of frozen meat. Raccoon — the other dark meat.

He rolls into the parking lot of Leon’s Thriftway in an old, maroon Impala with a trunk full of frozen meat. Raccoon — the other dark meat. In five minutes, Montrose, Mo., trapper Larry Brownsberger is sold out in the lot at 39th Street and Kensington Avenue. Word has gotten around about how clean his frozen raccoon carcasses are. How nicely they’re tucked up in their brown butcher paper. How they almost look like a trussed turkey … or something. His loyal customers beam as they leave, thinking about the meal they’ll soon be eating. That is, as soon as...

Raccoon causes carbon monoxide fatality in East Sandwich By Ira Kantor | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage A 62-year-old East Sandwich man was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his home Sunday morning after a raccoon crawled into his chimney flue and blocked it, police and fire officials said. “He was of such a size that it was a complete blockage of the products of combustion from the gas appliance,” said Sandwich Deputy Fire Chief Tom Corriveau. “So there was nowhere for them to go but back into the residence.” The victim was identified as...

Superintendent Alvin Lievsay said a student's parent promised to bring in a raccoon for the exercise, but surprised teacher Jerick Hutchinson by bringing the animal in a live trap. Lievsay said Hutchinson, "who used to work in a slaughter house," took the animal outside to the back of his truck Friday and shot it with the nail gun.

"A Cheshire, Connecticut, woman strangles a rabid raccoon to protect her children." (video report)

"A dead raccoon was found in the back of a truck owned by the North Port Animal Control Department in Florida... People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the officer assigned to the truck, Jessica Miller, charged with animal cruelty, and subjected to psychological evaluation and counseling. "PETA is asking that if convicted and in addition to serving a period of incarceration, Miller be prohibited from having personal and professional contact with animals and that authorities seize any animals currently in her custody.""

NICOSIA (Reuters) - A raccoon suffered an 11,000 volt electric shock when it scampered up a pylon in Cyprus but escaped with burns. The nocturnal mammal triggered a two-hour power outage at the town of Aradippou in southeast Cyprus after it scaled the pylon. It was eventually captured with a net and has been impounded by vets as an illegal import. "It suffered some burns which we treated and is now recovering ... it certainly has the will to live," Charalambos Kakoyiannis of the island's veterinary department said on Thursday. Raccoons, a native of the Americas, were introduced to Europe...

NICOSIA (Reuters) - A racoon suffered an 11,000 volt electric shock when it scampered up a pylon in Cyprus but escaped with burns. The nocturnal mammal triggered a two hour power outage at the town of Aradippou in southeast Cyprus after it scaled the pylon. It was eventually captured with a net and has been impounded by vets as an illegal import. "It suffered some burns which we treated and is now recovering ... it certainly has the will to live," Charalambos Kakoyiannis of the island's veterinary department said on Thursday. Racoons, a native of the Americas, were introduced to...

Germany is stepping up its battle against 'Nazi' racoons after they ruined much of this year's wine harvest. The racoons were released into the German countryside in 1934 under the orders of Hermann Goering. Goering thought they would "enrich" the local wildlife - but they have spread throughout Central Europe, from the Low Countries to the Urals, according to conservationists. The nocturnal mammals have become a health hazard in many cities, where they rummage through garbage bins and invade homeowners' attics and cellars. Now, they are becoming a threat to agriculture as well, according to farmers. "Racoons wiped out almost...

It`s a stripe mother nature didn`t put there. "I`m not sure at this point if it`s inhumane but it`s sad and it`s stupid," said Gloria Freeman, president of Animal Welfare in Shreveport. Motorists on Mansfield Road were recently treated to a double-take: a dead raccoon with a yellow line painted down it`s back - a striping job gone bad. "It`s sad, it`s a lack of respect, a lack of pride in their work whether it`s intentional or not," said Freeman. "I`ve been here for 4 and a half years and never had that happen. I was really quite surprised," said...

Iowa Burglars Turn Out to Be Raccoons 1 hour, 52 minutes ago Strange News - AP CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A family was startled when they were confronted by masked intruders. But it wasn't burglars Tina Tavernie found in her home. It was two 15-pound raccoons. Tavernie, 33, was home with her three children Saturday evening when they heard noises upstairs. "We thought somebody had broken in," she said. Tavernie said she first called her mother, who came over with a hammer to confront the intruders. When they got upstairs, they found one raccoon, which had apparently fallen through the...

PALMERTON, Pa. - A junk-food crazed critter billed as the world's weightiest raccoon has died, ending a 10-year life marked by more than a few midnight snacks. Bandit will no longer raid his owner's pantry, hunting down chips and cheese curls, Froot Loops and French Fries. "I haven't been eating, I haven't been sleeping," a bereaved Deborah "Pepper" Klitsch said Monday, two days after health problems forced her to euthanize her favorite pet. Klitsch - who lives in Palmerton, about 90 miles west of New York City - denied the occasional charge that she overfed the rotund raccoon, whose weight...

<p>A raccoon — one of those bandits that turns over garbage cans quicker than you can say “bag it” — has found a new home at the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium in Fort Myers.</p> <p>Only this coon is albino. Pink eyes, pink nose. No striped tail. No mask.</p>

CLEVELAND -- The husband of a Maple Heights teacher faces a charge of felony retaliation for sending the head of a dead raccoon to a member of the administration's union contract negotiating team. Maple Heights High School principal Deborah Houchins was at her home in Cleveland when she opened a package that was mailed to her on Halloween. Inside was the raccoon head. The package was traced to the Garfield Heights Post Office where video cameras record every transaction. Police zeroed in on the package being mailed by 51-year-old Donald Sullivan of Chagrin Falls. Besides being married to a Maple...

<p>Beer Foot, the raccoon who gained nationwide attention after being caught with a Coors Light beer can stuck on its foot, has died.</p> <p>The female died Thursday morning at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida where it had been treated for injuries caused by the can.</p>

<p>The Bonita Springs raccoon that was trapped in a Coors Light beer can has developed its own fan club.</p> <p>People as far away as California have inquired about the plight of the young female raccoon, now known as Beer Foot. The creature spent at least 10 days with her front right paw lodged in a beer can before Bonita Springs resident Cullum Hasty caught her Saturday and sent her to The Conservancy of Southwest Florida for treatment.</p>

<p>Coors Light and curiosity were almost a dangerous combination for a Bonita Springs raccoon.</p> <p>The fluffy black and white masked creature spent more than a week climbing trees and hobbling around the shores of the eastern Imperial River with a rusty, dented Coors Light beer can stuck on her paw.</p>