Raccoons are undeniably adorable, with their bandit-like masks and those clever little hands that seem almost human. It’s no ...

Urban raccoons are developing significantly shorter snouts than their rural cousins. This suggests that raccoons are entering ...

The woman attempted using a metal trashcan and a cardboard box to get the raccoon out, but neither option worked.

A woman helped a raccoon out of a sticky situation after the animal got itself trapped in a dumpster in Michigan. Footage ...

Sheryl Bartone kept the raccoon in a sheltered enclosure underneath her back porch for nearly six months, and planned to ...

Sheryl and Richard Bartone, a mother and son who own Bartone’s Apizza on Main Street in Derby, are upset after a raccoon they were keeping outside the restaurant as a pet was taken by state ...

Officers from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection removed a racoon from a restaurant in Derby ...

Jami-Marie Owen can still remember the moment her daughter’s lips "turned blue" and stopped breathing. What came next was a ...

A dumpster-diving raccoon that got so trashed on alcohol-fermented peaches it stopped breathing was saved by bighearted Kentucky nurse Misty Combs, who brought the critter back to life with CPR, ...

Vancouver police officers played the role of wildlife rescuer when responding to a call last week. Officers arrived in east Vancouver to investigate a disturbance Friday and found a person carrying a ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KATU) — A Vancouver Police officer is being praised for rescuing a baby raccoon that was being kept illegally as a pet, with plans now underway to return the animal safely to the ...

David Begnaud is a CBS News contributor and previously served as the lead national correspondent for "CBS Mornings," based in New York City. Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the ...