Officials charged a Massachusetts lawyer with animal cruelty after he allegedly killed his wife’s elderly pet dog with a rifle shot to the head while trying to pick off coyotes from a second-story ...

A Cohasset, Massachusetts man appeared in court on Tuesday, accused of shooting and killing his family dog.

Dad had trapped coyotes as far back as I can remember, and I’m 45 now. In the winter of 1937, when I was 15, a neighbor family, the Coles, got together a pack of six good coyote hounds, and dad and my ...