Chicago pigeon racing fans won’t see their birds come home to roost as fast as they hoped. An ordinance to let breeders of homing pigeons keep them in lofts in Chicago was held in committee Monday.

Growing up in a rough-edged neighborhood in Seattle, Jim Jenner caught street pigeons, tamed them, swapped them, and trained them to race. Through racing he realized the birds had heart and a history ...

Ten-year-old Jacob Sewall had seen pigeons only in books before a Maine neighbor named Scott Landry introduced the lad to breeding and racing the oft-misunderstood birds. Every day after school and by ...

GABRIELLE: DEPUTIES SAY MORE THAN 100 PIGEONS THAT ARE USED FOR RACING WERE STOLEN FROM A GREENVILLE COUNTY HOME LAST WEEKEND. THEIR OWNER SAYS THE BIRDS ARE VALUABLE. AND HE IS WORRIED ABOUT WHAT HAS ...

Lewis Burns is seen with some of his birds in one coup among 12 filled with racing pigeons on property in the east end of York. Background posts: Birds gone, rehabbed steeple stands and Marine and his ...

They flew the coop — and vanished into thin air. Bird handlers are devastated after a mind-boggling 5,000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK. “We’ve seen one of the very ...

The son of Rambo has been stolen. The son of Rambo, also known as “the Godfather,” is the top bird spirited away in a pigeon heist this week in which 45 birds were taken in one swoop from lofts in St.

MANKATO, Minn.—When Larry Wilmes tells the story about how he became a pigeon fancier, it starts with a long ride from Mankato to Pipestone in the back seat of a 1960s Plymouth. He was just a kid, a ...

More than 100 racing homing pigeons worth thousands of dollars were stolen from a Greenville County home over the weekend. Investigators with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office said about 116 of ...