Akers, a 19-year-old German and French major from Lancaster, thinks "the pirate is cool.'' "It shouldn't be a parrot,'' he insisted. "Parrots are weak.'' Unfortunately, it's a common feeling, admitted ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Anyone who went to a Pirates game from 1988-96 has seen Tom Mosser, though he was usually obscured by green feathers and a big yellow beak. "It will be on my gravestone that I was ...

A man in a pirate mask -- complete with a fake eye patch, beard and parrot -- is suspected of stealing a safe from a Cornelius business last month, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office.