Logan Wiening's help-wanted ad could go a little something like this: “Wanted: A fun-loving, entertaining mastodon that connects well with people and is available three nights a week for six or seven ...

Tuesday morning’s Mercer County Commission meeting had the usual funding requests, resolutions and presentations, but there was a big raccoon wearing pants and a safety vest there, too. Rocky the ...

Doting grandparents Walter and Gemma Muise of Middleton love clipping photos of their grandson, Ryan Gay, from the newspaper. But they always have to ask him, "Is this you?" before adding the picture ...

Mason Reber, a civil engineering major and Army ROTC cadet, led the crowd in a “We Are” chant after being revealed as the man ...

(The 13th mascot, a plucky pirate, is the only bare-faced mascot in the room, so she’s less overheated than the rest. “I did Skully last year,” she says, referring to a giant parrot costume, now ...

EAST LANSING – Citing safety concerns, Michigan State University officials have decided that people who wear the Sparty mascot costume can no longer participate in parades. Emily Guerrant, an MSU ...

It’s been three years since students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign passed a campuswide proposal for a bird called the kingfisher to be the new school mascot. This spring, students ...

ALL RIGHT STACEY, THIS IS A PRETTY COOL STORY TO THOUSANDS OF IOWA STATE GRADUATE WILL WALK ACROSS THE STAGE THIS SPRING, BUT ONE WILL GET TO WEAR SOMETHING NONE OF THE OTHERS GET TO. MEMBERS OF THE ...