You go out with coon dogs a dozen times, or maybe a hundred times, and the results are just so-so. Sure, you have fun. You strike coons and you chase them. You tree one 10 minutes after you put the ...

The death of 31-year fire service veteran Greg Coon has left family, friends and many in the firefighting community in mourning. The 62-year-old Coon died at home on June 29. He was cremated in his ...

Elvis sang about them -- hound dogs -- and most of us tend to think of them as being for the common folk, but those canines of the coon variety are actually pretty special. So special, in fact, that ...

On Labor Day there's a group of people who gather in an Ala. cemetery to honor the hard work of man's best friend. In this encore presentation, NPR's Debbie Elliott takes us to a remote hillside where ...

THOSE PARTS, NOT HERE — I'm somewhere in Alabama. Or maybe even Mississippi. A sign nailed to a tree makes it clear this cemetery is burial place for true coon dogs only. Don't bother inquiring unless ...

Thanks to David Rainer, a columnist on www.outdooralabama.com and the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for this article More than 200 people came from near and far for the ...

We left mid-day after a hangover-cure of a breakfast. Lorde is playing on the stereo at 120 decibels and hot Alabama air pumped in through the open windows, producing a distinctive howl from time to ...

Some people cried. Others shook their fists in anger or worried aloud about mob rule and potential retaliation. But in the end, the Coon Rapids City Council voted unanimously to shut down a ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A Twin Cities dog owner wants to warn others after a deadly accident happened in an unlikely place. Coon Rapids resident Danna Shannon dropped off her 3-year-old black lab Shiloh ...