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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wildlife and law enforcement officers spent several hours observing and tracking a mountain lion that made its way through residential and business areas in Camarillo before it was captured Wednesday ...

North Carolina deputies shot a lion eight times after it killed an intern. It took eight shotgun blasts by sheriff's deputies to kill a lion that got loose at a North Carolina wildlife center and ...