This could have been me. I started playing the violin when I was 9. I also had a pogo stick, albeit not one of the shiny rubber- and plastic-coated ones that are now in vogue but a creaky all-metal ...

Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and nonevents, most of which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known — but no less noteworthy — incidents from ...