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ANN ARBOR, MI — Selling or using glue traps to catch mice and other animals is now banned in Ann Arbor.

City Council voted 9-0 Monday night, Oct. 19, to give final approval to a new ordinance prohibiting the traps because of the slow and painful deaths and prolonged suffering they cause.

City officials also cite public health concerns they can facilitate disease transmission to humans.

“Glue traps are inhumane and they are a cruel practice that has no place in our society,” Mayor Christopher Taylor said, calling a full ban on them the right thing to do.

Council Member Ayesha Ghazi Edwin, lead sponsor, thanked Ward 3 resident Jeff Zick and others from PETA for their leadership on the issue, saying they’ve led with empathy.

Animal rights advocates continued to express support for the ordinance Monday night, reiterating arguments they made at a previous council meeting.

“Animals are not trash and humans are not gods, but too often we behave as though those things are true,” Zick told council members, thanking them for setting a national example that all creatures deserve consideration.

“We are all animals,” he said. “We are all part of the same interconnected natural world.”

The ordinance takes effect 60 days after publication. A violation will be a civil infraction punishable by a fine up to $250 for a first offense and between $250 and $500 for each additional offense.

The ban does not apply to glue traps for insects or spiders, and people still can use other types of traps, including lethal snap traps or no-kill traps.

Michigan DNR prepares to release thousands of pheasants for hunters

Max Reinhart

The Detroit News

Updated Oct. 19, 2026, 11:46 p.m. ET

Hunters in southern Michigan will get the chance to harvest a bird with deep connections to the state’s sporting history this fall and winter, Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials have announced.

Starting Oct. 20, DNR is releasing thousands of pheasants at 13 state game areas ranging from the southwest corner of the state all the way east through Metro Detroit and into the Thumb.

This is the seventh year for the program, which “gives (hunters) a chance to relive the good old days of pheasant hunting, which at one point was more popular than deer hunting,” Adam Bump, DNR’s upland birds specialist, said in a press release.

The program is drawing criticism from an animal rights organization, which is calling it an inhumane act that terrorizes the distinctive birds.

“Wildlife authorities should be in the business of protecting animals, not purposefully breeding birds to be blasted out of the sky and blown apart for hunters’ cheap thrills,” said PETA spokesperson Catie Cryar in a statement. “PETA is calling on the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to put its resources toward restoring animals’ habitats instead of condemning thousands of pheasants to terrifying deaths.”

The program is funded by the $25 fee Michigan hunters pay to obtain a pheasant hunting license.

DNR partners with the Michigan Association of Gamebird Breeders and Hunting Preserves on the program, with the association supplying the birds.

This year, they’re planning to release around 7,300 pheasants in two rounds, between Oct. 20 and Nov. 14, then between Dec. 1 and New Year’s Day. These dates coincide with pheasant hunting season dates in the southern Lower Peninsula, officials said.

Locations for the pheasant release include:

• Cornish (Van Buren County)
• Crane Pond (Cass County)
• Crow Island (Bay and Saginaw counties)
• Dansville (Ingham County)
• Erie (Monroe County)
• Gagetown (Huron and Tuscola counties)
• Lapeer (Lapeer County)
• Leidy Lake (St. Joseph County)
• Pointe Mouillee (Monroe and Wayne counties)
• Rose Lake (Clinton and Shiawassee counties)
• St. Johns Marsh (St. Clair County)
• Stanton (Montcalm County)
• Townline 16 (Bay County)

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For information, including parking details, hunters can visit the DNR website.

Ring-necked pheasants are ground-dwelling game birds that can grow more than 3 feet long, including their long tails. Males have iridescent copper-and-gold plumage, green heads, red facial patches and characteristic white neck rings while females are mottled tan and brown. The birds produce a distinctive fluttering rush of wings when startled into flight.

According to the state, pheasant hunting was popular in Michigan into the mid-1900s. However, the state’s wild pheasant population has steeply dropped since then as the birds have increasingly lost their grassland habitat to farmland and suburban development.

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SUTTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — A Braxton County man who was arrested following a hunting accident last week is now being charged with manslaughter after the victim died.https://mmamp.wboy.com/avi/?key=487jl6gl#amp=1

Arthur Allen Neff, 64, of Strange Creek, was arrested on a new charge of involuntary manslaughter following a hunting accident in which he accidentally shot Bobby Allen Stillwell, 42, of Strange Creek.

According to the West Virginia State Police (WVSP), Stillwell died on Monday due to injuries sustained in the shooting. EMS took him for treatment after the shooting, and he was later flown to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown.Braxton County man arrested for allegedly shooting victim while hunting

Neff was originally charged with being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, wanton endangerment and negligent shooting while hunting. He is being held in the Central Regional Jail.

This investigation remains ongoing, the WVSP said.

Braxton County man charged with manslaughter after hunting accident victim dies