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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Georgia’s small city of Tallapoosa has earned national attention after USA TODAY’s Readers’ Choice Awards 2025 ranked its Possum ...

A possum is lowered in a plastic box as part of the New Year's Eve Possum Drop in Brasstown, N.C. With less than four weeks until New Year's Eve, the annual Possum Drop in a North Carolina mountain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...