Karvonen’s says to keep an eye out for opossums behaving strangely. “They will freeze if you approach, so if there’s one sitting out in the cold on the fence and doesn’t move on after you ...

The male opossum weighed about six pounds and was euthanized to be tested for rabies, officials said. An opossum trapped at a big box store in Iwilei in mid-December met a similar fate.

With its rat-like tail and hairless ears, the humble opossum doesn’t get a lot of respect. But North America’s only native marsupial, or pouched animal, plays a valuable role in nature.

USA Today rates Tallapoosa’s annual Possum Drop as one of the 10 best in America. No joke. Originally named Possum Snout, the northwest Georgia town of Tallapoosa has nurtured a special ...