SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — An animal rights group is asking South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to reconsider her decision to blow off fireworks at Mount Rushmore for the Fourth of July celebration in...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has filed a lawsuit to compel Oregon Health & Science University to release footage of experiments on monkeys at its Oregon...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on the death of a dog that participated in the Iditarod race (all times local):

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cats will no longer be used by an Ohio children's hospital for teaching doctors a method of examining human airways and lungs.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals had complained to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center about practicing bronchoscopy procedure on cats.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is recognizing a police force at Lake Tahoe for its compassionate treatment of a bear cub that was trapped in a garbage bin.

The national animal rights group presented Truckee, California police this week with the Compassionate Police Department Award after officers in the town just north of Lake Tahoe freed the cub on Nov. 16.

The young animal jumped out and ran up a hillside to its mother, who was waiting nearby.

After more than a century behind bars, the beasts on boxes of animal crackers are roaming free.

Mondelez International says it has redesigned the packaging of its Barnum's Animals crackers after relenting to pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Nabisco — which is owned by Mondelez — has been making the popular animal-shaped cookies since 1902. The red-and-yellow packaging has always shown animals in cages, as if they're traveling in boxcars for the circus.

CHICAGO (AP) — An animal rights organization has filed a lawsuit against Brookfield Zoo located outside Chicago in a search for documents that could shed light on the 2015 deaths of 54 stingrays.

Court records show People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals since 2016 has been asking the Cook County Forest Preserve District to turn over documents detailing events leading to the stingray deaths. PETA says the county hasn't responded to the request, prompting last week's lawsuit.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A western Colorado fair says it will continue with a scheduled performance featuring live grizzly bears despite protests from animal advocates.

Mesa County Fair Board President Kyle Carstens says all acts are verified and reputable through the fair association.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals or PETA sent a letter to Mesa County Fair organizers earlier this month citing safety and animal welfare concerns on its performance.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A $5,000 reward is being offered for information about who ran over and killed about 20 geese in northern Indiana.

FESTUS, Mo. (AP) — A center in eastern Missouri is offering to give up its chimpanzees and other primates to settle a lawsuit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas' largest public university is defending its Facebook page after animal-rights activists filed a First Amendment lawsuit over claims the school is censoring critical comments.

Texas A&M University said Wednesday it supported free speech in response to a lawsuit this week by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. But the school described posts by PETA and its supporters as "online attacks" that interfered with university business.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An animal rights activist's "TAMU Rules!" comment hardly stood out on Texas A&M University's Facebook page. Then she tried a more attention-grabbing post, one that described dog research in a campus lab as "torture."

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An animal rights organization is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the beating death of a Wichita man's dog during a break-in.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals offered the reward Wednesday after the 10-year-old American bulldog, "Buffalo Boy," was killed.

NEWARK, Del. (AP) — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is accusing an award-winning University of Delaware professor of abusing lab rats.

ST. ROSE, La. (AP) — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says chemicals were apparently intentionally poured along a dog's head and back, leaving him with burns all over his body.

PETA said in a news release Wednesday that it will offer a reward of up to $5,000 for information "leading to the arrest and conviction on cruelty charges of the person(s) responsible."

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A national animal welfare organization says it opposes a proposal to make the Labrador retriever the state dog of Ohio, arguing the bill will entice puppy mills to produce them in large numbers.

MADRAS, Ore. (AP) — An animal-rights group says it's buying billboard space along U.S. Highway 26 to memorialize 14 calves that died last week when the truck they were riding in rolled onto its side outside Madras.

The billboard will feature a cow next to the words "I'm ME, Not MEAT. See the individual. Go Vegan."

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on the death of a dog during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race (all times local):

4:30 p.m.

The race marshal for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race says there was no evidence of lack of care surrounding the death of a dog on Thursday.

Mark Nordman says in a statement that every dog death is investigated "to the fullest."

CHARLESTOWN, Ind. (AP) — A judge has granted an injunction against owners of an Indiana wildlife center that prevents them from using tiger cubs for public encounters.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Two bears from a North Carolina zoo are on their way to a Colorado wildlife sanctuary following the settlement of a lawsuit in which in the plaintiffs were represented by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Court documents say a south Oklahoma animal park has agreed to send 19 tigers that are the subject of a federal lawsuit in Florida to a sanctuary in Colorado.

Documents filed in U.S. District Court in Tampa, Florida, say Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park reached the agreement with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The agreement calls for the tigers to be sent to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado.

BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) — An animal rights group is planning to place a billboard near the site of a highway crash that killed three cows and injured a man in southeast Idaho.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska investigators say no evidence of animal cruelty was found after an animal rights group complained about a kennel operated by four-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey, who was recently accused in a dog-doping scandal.

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough said the investigation was conducted Saturday on the kennel, which is in Willow. Alaska State Troopers also are separately investigating complaints against a kennel, but they won't identify the musher.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Three animal rights activists are barred from SeaWorld San Diego after participating in a protest led by actor James Cromwell.

A judge Thursday also barred Ricky Chavez Rodriguez, Lyanne Fernandez and Lisa Lange from its waterslide park, Aquatica, for three years.

The three People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals members and Cromwell barged into an Orca Encounter show on July 24 with signs reading "SeaWorld Kills." PETA wants the orcas released from tanks.

BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) — An animal rights group is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for killing a pelican in Alabama found with black electrical tape wrapped around its beak and a rope wrapped around one wing and its feet.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland drivers are seeing a lot of Alicia Silverstone.

The vegan actress who starred in "Clueless" appears naked in a new billboard that's gone up on busy West Burnside Street. Sponsored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, it shows Silverstone turned slightly away from the viewer, holding a sheep mask near her exposed bottom.

The billboard that has also appeared in New York reads: "I'd rather go naked than wear wool. Wear your own skin. Let animals keep theirs."

UXBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is offering a $5,000 reward to help find whoever dumped a bag containing six live puppies into a Massachusetts river.

Uxbridge police say a kayaker found the week-old puppies in the Blackstone River on Sunday. They're all expected to survive.

VAN VLEET, Miss. (AP) — An animal rights group is offering $5,000 for information about whoever shot eleven horses and donkeys in Mississippi, killing seven horses and both donkeys.

Chickasaw County Sheriff James Meyers calls it "a strange, terrible, terrible crime."

He says investigators don't yet know the bullets' caliber, but know the rifle had a high-capacity magazine. He says some horses were shot several times.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Monkey see. Monkey sue. Monkey settle.

Attorneys representing a macaque monkey have agreed to a compromise in a case where they asserted the animal owned the copyright to selfie photos it had shot with a photographer's camera.

WYNNEWOOD, Okla. (AP) — Officials of an animal rights organization say they're concerned about 19 tigers an exotic animal park in Oklahoma recently acquired from a Florida zoo.

Greater Wynnewood Animal Park zookeeper Joe Maldonado tells The Oklahoman the tigers legally belong to him. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals officials want the tigers to be moved to a wildlife refuge in Colorado.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A family has settled a lawsuit against the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for taking a girl's unattended dog and euthanizing it, ending an attempt to effectively put PETA on trial for euthanizing hundreds of animals each year.

The agreement was confirmed Wednesday by PETA and the family's attorney. The settlement dims what could have been a very public spotlight on the international animal rights organization and its controversial animal shelter in Virginia.

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — An animal rights group is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for shootings of cattle in the Carlsbad area of southeastern New Mexico.

The reward offered by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals follows the announcement by the Eddy County Sheriff's Office that six cattle were shot and killed on two properties last week.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Groups whose ads for buses and trains were rejected by a District of Columbia transit agency are suing.

The groups that sued the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority on Wednesday are the American Civil Liberties Union, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a women's health care group, and right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos' company. The groups say parts of WMATA's ad policies violate the First Amendment.

TUCKER, Ga. (AP) — The reward has grown to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever buried a dog up to her nose in the ground near Atlanta. The canine later died.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced the reward increase on Monday.

Last month, Eric Purdue found and rescued the chow chow mix, which had been buried alive in tightly packed ground on an all-terrain vehicle trail in Tucker. Purdue named her Lulu.

TUCKER, Ga. (AP) — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has offered a reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction following the death of a dog hours after being buried up to her nose.