The Holyoke Police Department and a Good Samaritan assisted with the raccoon rescue in Holyoke, Mass. Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

April 16 (UPI) --Massachusetts police and a helpful passerby came to the rescue of a raccoon spotted stuck with only its head emerging from a hole in a storm drain grate. Holyoke Police Chief ...

Photo from Holyoke Police Department via Facebook An alert bystander who noticed a raccoon with its head stuck in a storm drain grate later assisted police with its rescue using two laundry pods ...

A GERMAN city has surrendered to an invasion of "Nazi" raccoons that are running riot in the streets. Officials in Kassel, central Germany, admitted defeat by abandoning attempts to exterminate ...

Residents in one South Jersey neighborhood came across a raccoon that tested positive for rabies, according to the Camden County Health Department. A resident in Collingswood, New Jersey ...

COLLINGSWOOD, N.J. (WPVI) -- Animal control officials in Collingswood, New Jersey, were able to capture a raccoon they believe was responsible for two attacks. After being euthanized, it tested ...