The Andy Griffith Show News Archives

When Jack Melling locked the door on his barber shop Friday, it was for good. After 60 years.

In Mayberry, N.C., when Floyd the barber learned the vacationing visitor was from Pennsylvania, he asked if he knew where Coopersburg was.

When the Balloon Boy saga unfolded on live TV, it captivated much of the nation.

I have to be honest: Last week was not exactly the best five days for me, as I anxiously awaited word on whether I had to serve on jury duty.

Some suggested sky divers. Others, blimps, gliders and fishing hooks. Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden says concerned citizens sent him plenty of suggestions last week on how to capture the large helium balloon that a Fort Collins couple said was carrying their 6-year-old son.

Carroll Shelby trumped Elvis Presley and Lee Iacocca at the 2009 Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas auction, as results from the October event were released by the auction house.

Oct. 20: Four-year-old Olivia Hartzog and her dog Mollie are back together after firefighters rescued the dog from a well.

The first thing people ask Scott Epperson when they meet him is "Where's your bullet?" Epperson doesn't have to say anything.

There are funny men, and then there are legends; Don Rickles is firmly in the latter category, having kept America laughing for over 50 years.

In the 1952-53 school year I was given a poem. I can only remember bits of it and hope that you will be able to find the complete poem for me.

Crispin Glover, from left, Lea Thompson and Michael J. Fox star in the " Back to the Future." Actress Lea Thompson of the "Back to the Future" trilogy will appear at the 2010 George Lindsey UNA Film Festival in Florence, festival organizers have announced.

With family and friends looking on in anticipation, 101 local veterans took to the sky Saturday morning for a daytrip visit to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. These were the men and women who 65 years ago stormed the beaches in France, battled at sea, liberated Paris, marched to Berlin and served on the home front, all to squash the ...

Of all the TV theme songs that have secret lyrics - lyrics that were never used on the show - I think the best set of lyrics may be the ones for the Andy Griffith Show theme.