BLANKET, Texas — Too frail to walk much any more, the old man cruises around his small farm on a scooter, weaving his way through the chickens that cluck and crow in a shrill storm of barnyard noise.

FORT WORTH -- The last known cockfighting school in the United States is hanging up its spurs. The final students, two brothers from Guatemala, completed the two-week course in November. The school's ...