ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Coon hunting is a sport that brings people from all over Orangeburg County every year for its annual Grand American. Ray Conrad has been a vendor there for over 30 years and has ...

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 ...

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.

Nobody seemed tired, even well after midnight. Perhaps it was the post-hunt camaraderie. Or maybe it was the chili and beef stew. Even the youngest ones seemed spry. More than 150 people crowded into ...

Blankenship has been charged in connection with the accepting of bribes from Buchanan County contractors, including cash, coon dogs, coon dog hunting trips, the construction of a coon dog kennel, and ...

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 ...

A youth coon hunt will be held in Ridgeville on Saturday, Jan. 31, sponsored by the Summerville Coon Hunters Association. It’s part of a series of nine youth coon hunts being held around South ...

The small campfire penetrated the surrounding darkness but offered little respite from the winter weather. The cold bit noses and ears while frost shrouded the trees of the surrounding forest. My ...

I'm sure everyone remembers the late great country comedian Jerry Clower. He and I shared a great friendship through the years and his greatest, most famous story was "The Coon Hunting Story." My ...

Club members, left to right, Harry Burroughs, Scott Mead and Randy Rogers stand inside the Coon Creek Hunt Club with Burroughs’ dog, Abby. The club, which was formed in 1964, has roots in a local ...