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While most states banned this cruel practice decades ago, legislative loopholes and special interest lobbying have kept it ...

W ITH FAIR regularity for the past number of years, we have made a call for the Pennsylvania Legislature to finally join the rest of the nation in outlawing live pigeon shoots. We have made this call, ...

LIVINGSTON, Mont. — Livingston resident Bonnie Goodman has been rescuing pigeons injured under the Main Street and B Street underpass, where a U.S. Department of Agriculture contractor hired by ...

A spokesperson said: “Police received a report that a pigeon had been shot with what is believed to have been an air rifle in Bramble Drive, Hailsham, on Saturday, October 11. “Sadly, the pigeon was ...

An illustration of a gun adorned with dollar signs aiming at pigeons flying from the Pa. Capitol. (Daniel Fishel / For Spotlight PA) The proposed pigeon shooting ban passed through a Pennsylvania ...

To a wild round of applause, a Pennsylvania House committee passed a bill to ban live pigeon shoots at the end of last April. The bill’s bipartisan advancement was a new chapter in a bitter debate ...

Pigeon shoot supporters pour money into Pa. campaign accounts More than a dozen Pennsylvania lawmakers accepted money from at least one of two political action committees that sought to defeat a ...