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 ...

Wildlife officers shot the deer with a tranquilizer dart so the cage could be safely removed. Photo from Colorado Parks and Wildlife via X A mule deer entangled in a wire tomato cage for weeks was ...

Nearly four years after Suzanne Morphew disappeared from her Chaffee County home, the discovery that she died with animal tranquilizers in her body has refocused attention on her husband’s use of such ...

A black bear roamed through the Hudson Valley village of Pleasantville on Oct. 5, ignoring intial attempts by authorities to shoo it away from the highly populated area. Pleasantville police requested ...