Georgia’s small city of Tallapoosa has earned national attention after USA TODAY’s Readers’ Choice Awards 2025 ranked its Possum Drop as the third-best New Year’s Eve drop in the country. The event, ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - If a national animal rights group gets its way, people in a small mountain town in North Carolina will have to greet the new year without lowering a scrappy marsupial to the ...

Around the world, the dawn of a new calendar year is often met with bright fireworks, a little bubbly and a ball drop. Arguably, the most famous New Year's Eve ball drop is the one that happens in New ...

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 ...

A Superior Court judge has ordered the state Wildlife Resources Commission to pay almost $75,000 in attorney fees to PETA in the legal challenge to the annual New Year's Eve Possum Drop in Brasstown.