Cocks
COCKS. The cock is preeminently a sun symbol. In western Asia the crowing cock is closely associated with solar rituals; in the ancient Near East it became an integral part of the solar iconogra...
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Rooster owners in this Southern California city may be about to get their feathers ruffled.Measure A on Tuesday's ballot seeks to muffle incessant cock-a-doodle-dooing and crack down on illegal coc...
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Even on "The Sopranos," Michael Imperioli never had a co-star like this one: a bird with shiny black plumage topped by a bright red comb.Dino is a fighting rooster in Mike Batistick's "Chicken," a ...
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A man who told police he bit the head off a rooster accepted a prosecution offer Monday to drop the case if he is not rearrested within the next six months.Humberto Rodriguez was arrested June 29, ...
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Big Red, the rooster whose daily tours of Main Street brought national attention to this mid-Willamette Valley town, died this week after getting mauled by a dog.
The Rhode Island Red...
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Spectators shake their fists, scream out wagers and cheer on their roosters, the air swirling with cigarette smoke and chicken feathers.Saturday night in Breaux Bridge means rooster fights at the A...
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Some cockfighters might take their roosters south of the border. Others are likely to go underground.When a new law takes effect Friday, it no longer will be legal to fight roosters in New Mexico. ...
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A ban on bird imports to Puerto Rico has forced the cancellation of more than 100 cockfights, dealing a blow to a lucrative industry in the U.S. territory, an official said Friday.Puerto Rico halte...
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Cockfighting enthusiasts in this U.S. Caribbean territory, where almost every town has a fighting pit, consider the bloodsport a beloved tradition dating from Spain's colonization of the island mor...
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