A man was returning from a hike in southern Arizona when he saw a raccoon-like animal on the hood of his car, deputies said. It ripped off his windshield wiper, then lunged at him, the Cochise ...

A Massachusetts police department and good samaritan stepped in to rescue a raccoon that was stuck in a storm drain — using ...

The animal was determined to be a coatimundi — pronounced ko-ah-ta-muhn-dee — a raccoon-like animal native to the Americas found as far north as Flagstaff, and in parts of New Mexico ...

There have been 16 cases of confirmed rabid animals statewide this year, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health. Two raccoons tested positive in Anderson County ...

The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene tried to help, she remembers, but only works with animals like rodents or rats. “With raccoons, you’re on your own,” she said.