NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dubbed on social media as the "Houdini” of New Orleans' Mid-City neighborhood, Scrim — a scruffy, mixed-breed dog that was on the lam for more than six months after escaping his ...

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 ...

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, ...

Re “The SDPD’s freeway fiasco” (Dec. 12): It seems to me that the proper response to someone threatening to jump onto a freeway should be to:1) Get the cushion into position.2) Tell the potential ...

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 ...

DENVER — A grand jury indictment released Friday includes new details on how investigators connected Barry Morphew to an animal tranquilizer called BAM that was found in the bones of his wife, Suzanne ...

Last week, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office investigated suspected human remains, looked for an egg-throwing vandal and responded to reports of lights on mountains at night. The following incidents ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Lucy’s handy-dandy silver-plated tranquilizer gun in the Fallout TV show is a mostly original creation designed for the new Amazon Prime adaption. But ...