Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story is simple, but devastating in its quiet way: Young Opie, playing with his slingshot, accidentally kills a mother bird.

Widower Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) divides his time between raising his young son, Opie (Ron Howard), and his job as Sheriff/Justice of the Peace of sleepy Mayberry, North Carolina. Andy and Opie ...

Opie develops a crush on his teacher, Ms. Crump, and Andy sees that the only way to get Opie to forget about it is to admit to him that he and Helen are an "item." New height and weight requirements ...