THERE’S BIG MONEY in competitive raccoon hunting. When the world championship left Kentucky in 2009, officials estimated that the loss would cost the state some $3.5 million in total economic impact.

Raccoon season is open in the summer, but I'll confess the last time I went 'coon hunting was in the winter of '78. That's when my roommate, Hog Ears, and I went raccoon hunting with Ernest, a ...

Sep. 16—JEFFERSON — Raccoons throughout northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania found themselves up a tree this weekend, as a coon hunting competition came to the Ashtabula County Fairgrounds.

GREG MAYNARD bows his head in prayer. It’s about an hour before sunset on a Friday in May, and the president of the ProSport Kennel Club is standing inside a clubhouse in western Indiana that looks ...

No one can really say when it all began in earnest, but coon hunting has been a staple of families since the pioneer days. Raccoons have long been hunted for their valuable fur and tasty meet. A large ...

Braxton Graves says his dog Jeff was shot and killed while hunting back in Union County back in September. UNION COUNTY, Tenn ...

Nov. 20—WHITLEY COUNTY — On December 14, Whitley East Elementary School in Siler will host "Coon Hunting for a Cause," a community-driven event organized by Matt Rose and Debra Elliott. This event ...

AURORA, Ky. -- Dressed in his best Elvis outfit -- a shimmering white jumpsuit -- Wesley Sanford lovingly slipped a matching Elvis T-shirt on his favorite raccoon-hunting dog. That was Sanford's way ...

People hunt raccoons for many reasons. Some hunt for the thick, warm fur. Others like the taste of raccoon meat, some hunt raccoon for the sport and some for all of the above. No matter the reasons ...

The city of Kassel in Germany has been overrun by 30,000 raccoons, which some believe were released during the Nazi era, but a plan to sterilize them has been halted.