With less than four weeks until New Year's Eve, the annual Possum Drop in a North Carolina mountain town is once again up in the air following a court ruling Friday. With less than four weeks until ...

USA Today has compiled a list of the 10 best New Year’s Eve drops in the country, and one Georgia event made the cut. It’s not Atlanta’s well-known Peach Drop, however. It’s something a little less ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Barring a change in state law, the annual New Year's Eve Possum Drop in the mountains of North Carolina will have to carry on without a live animal. The North Carolina Wildlife ...

TALLAPOOSA, Ga. — Times Square in New York has the Waterford Crystal New Year's Eve Ball. Underground Atlanta plays host to the Peach Drop. Tallapoosa has a similar New Year's Eve tradition. Residents ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A threatened lawsuit over a live "possum drop" to ring in New Year's prompted folks in a mountain town known as the "Opossum Capital of the World" to roll over and use a roadkill ...

Animal rights advocates maintain that legislators improperly granted a regulatory loophole to a Clay County business last month to allow it to conduct its annual Possum Drop on New Year's Eve. Animal ...

BRASSTOWN – For the first time in its 21-year history, a live opossum won't be used in the popular but controversial Brasstown Possum Drop on New Year's Eve. Clay Logan, organizer of the event, said ...

RALEIGH, N.C.—There will be no live opossum at an Appalachian community’s Possum Drop this New Year’s Eve, after concerns by animal-rights groups spurred an agreement between the festival organizer ...