Sonoma County authorities seized 833 roosters this week while serving a search warrant at a rural Santa Rosa property in what investigators described as a suspected cockfighting operation. The warrant ...

A meticulous six-month investigation led the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office to seize an enormous number of supposed farm animals and arrest 30-year-old Saul Villalobos-Delacruz, age 30, of Santa Rosa, ...

Animal welfare groups are asking North Carolina prosecutors to file felony cruelty charges after hundreds of fighting roosters were reportedly abandoned without food or water in Wilkes County. The ...

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