Animal welfare
FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 6, 2021 file photo, Annika Schleu of Germany cries as she couldn't controls her horse to compete in the equestrian portion of the women's modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, Japan. A German coach in modern pentathlon who struck a horse at the Olympics was ordered on Monday, Sept. 6, 2021 to undergo training about animal welfare before she can work again at major competitions. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
Modern pentathlon coach who struck horse sent for training

Sep. 06, 2021 07:45 AM EDT

Florida horse rescue center cares for wild mustangs

By Christopher Spata Jun. 06, 2021 06:45 AM EDT
Webster, Fla. (AP) — The white hieroglyphs running down the mustang’s big, brown neck, and the necks of all the horses like him, tell some of the story — if...

Cheyenne animal shelter closes after COVID-19 infections

May. 31, 2021 04:06 PM EDT
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Cheyenne Animal Shelter has closed to the public after staffers tested positive for COVID-19. The shelter's...

Editorial Roundup: Kentucky

By The Associated Press May. 26, 2021 12:18 PM EDT
Bowling Green Daily News. May 21, 2021. Editorial: Leaders right to object to child-focused social media network It is...

John Cox, Republican recall candidate for California governor, begins his statewide "Meet the Beast" bus tour on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, with Tag, a Kodiak brown bear, at Miller Regional Park in Sacramento. (Renee C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee via AP)
Next stop for Caitlyn Jenner campaign: Fox's Hannity show

By Michael R. Blood And Kathleen Ronayne May. 04, 2021 12:59 PM EDT

Tick populations on the rise in Connecticut

May. 02, 2021 05:11 PM EDT
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s tick population is increasing this season, due to a variety of factors that include shorter and warmer winters and longer...

Maryland officials trying to limit bear-human conflict

By Kimberly Seif Of Capital News Service Apr. 27, 2021 04:53 PM EDT
As Maryland black bears emerge from hibernation, the state’s Wildlife and Heritage Service is warning people to keep food tucked away to avoid attracting them....

In this February 2021 photo provided by Matt Johnson is animal rights activist Johnson, a researcher with the group Direct Action Everywhere. Johnson, a leading foe of the livestock industry, has been charged with trespassing at a pig facility in Iowa, the first case brought under the state's latest so-called "ag-gag" law. (Matt Johnson via AP)
Industry foe charged under Iowa's new food trespassing law

By Ryan J. Foley Apr. 08, 2021 02:26 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Indiana

By The Associated Press Mar. 30, 2021 02:00 PM EDT
South Bend Tribune. March 28, 2021. Editorial: Indiana’s governor has advice, not an order, on masks. Will anyone listen? ...

FILE - In this March 14, 2014, file photo, Howard Farley, who helped organize Nome as the end of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ahead of the first running in 1973, is seen at the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum in Nome, Alaska. The world's most famous sled dog race starts Sunday, March 7, 2021, without its defending champion in a contest that will be as much dominated by unknowns and changes because of the pandemic as mushers are by the Alaska terrain. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
Pandemic forces route change, other precautions for Iditarod

By Mark Thiessen Mar. 06, 2021 11:02 AM EST

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden visits the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. At bottom center is a model of the COVID-19 virus. On Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting Biden restored taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Social media users are falsely claiming the Biden administration is bankrolling the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab which has faced unproven allegations that the coronavirus leaked from the facility leading to the global COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By Ali Swenson And Arijeta Lajka Feb. 26, 2021 02:49 PM EST

Love During Lockdown: Louisianians fell in love in many ways

By Victoria Dodge, Lafayette Daily Advertiser Feb. 20, 2021 12:01 AM EST
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Despite guidelines involving distance, minimal interaction with others and keeping a close inner circle these past 11 months, love has...

Man pleads guilty to involvement in cockfighting operation

Feb. 18, 2021 10:13 PM EST
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — A Holyoke man has pleaded guilty to charges connected to his involvement in a cockfighting operation that included more than 400...

In this undated 2020 satellite image provided by the Arizona State University's Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Allen Coral Atlas, runoff from the island of Molokai in Hawaii is shown flowing into the ocean. Axis deer, a species native to India that were presented as a gift from Hong Kong to the king of Hawaii in 1868,  have fed hunters and their families on the rural island of Molokai for generations. But for the community of about 7,500 people where self-sustainability is a way of life, the invasive deer are a cherished food source but also a danger to the island ecosystem. Now, the proliferation of the non-native deer and drought on Molokai have brought the problem into focus. Hundreds of deer have died from starvation, stretching thin the island's limited resources. When deer devour fruits, vegetables and other plants, it leads to to erosion and runoff into the ocean that alters the island's coral reef— another important food source. (Arizona State University's Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Allen Coral Atlas via AP)
Deer native to India starve to death amid drought in Hawaii

By Caleb Jones Feb. 09, 2021 01:23 PM EST

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 8, 2017 file photo, three rhinos line up at the Welgevonden Game Reserve in the Limpopo province, South Africa. South Africa's government has announced the number of rhinos killed in the country's national parks dropped by 33% last year, with COVID-19 restrictions helping by reducing movements around the country, the country’s environmental ministry announced Monday Feb. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Renee Graham, File)
South Africa's virus lockdown helps reduce rhino poaching

By Mogomotsi Magome Feb. 01, 2021 12:40 PM EST

300 roosters seized in cockfighting raid in Las Vegas

Jan. 29, 2021 09:07 PM EST
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police seized 300 roosters Friday they suspect were used for cockfighting and arrested at least one person at the scene on drug...

Editorial Roundup: Kentucky

By The Associated Press Jan. 27, 2021 12:46 PM EST
Recent editorials from Kentucky newspapers: ___ Jan. 25 The State Journal on how residents in...

FILE - In this March 18, 2020, file photo, a crowd standing behind ExxonMobile signage watches as Thomas Waerner, of Norway, arrives in Nome, Alaska to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The world's most famous sled dog race has lost another major sponsor as the Iditarod prepares for a scaled-back version of this year's race because of the pandemic, officials said Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. ExxonMobil confirmed to The Associated Press that the oil giant will drop its sponsorship of the race. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP, File)
ExxonMobil becomes latest sponsor to sever Iditarod ties

By Mark Thiessen Jan. 21, 2021 08:08 PM EST

FILE - In this May 16, 1997 file photo, Albert Roux poses for a photo. Roux, the French-born chef and restaurateur who along with his late brother Michel had a profound influence on British dining habits, has died. He was 85, it was reported on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. The brothers are widely credited with revolutionizing Britain’s staid and old-fashioned culinary scene, notably with their opening of Le Gavroche in London in 1967, a restaurant that was frequented by a loyal clientele that included many of the icons of the Swinging Sixties in London. (PA via AP, File)
Albert Roux, major influence on UK dining habits, dies at 85

By Pan Pylas Jan. 06, 2021 08:47 AM EST

A man shines a light in the abandoned Wanling cave near Manhaguo village in southern China's Yunnan province on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Villagers said the cave had been used as a sacred altar presided over by a Buddhist monk _ precisely the kind of contact between bats and people that alarms scientists. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins

By Dake Kang, Maria Cheng And Sam Mcneil Dec. 30, 2020 12:40 AM EST