Authorities in Delaware have charged a 17-year-old boy with first degree murder after they say he fatally shot his father with a crossbow to avoid a confrontation about skipping school, The Washington Post reports.

In Virginia, an outdoorsman encountered a "strange and amazing animal," a huge, all-white raccoon. He'd "never seen anything remotely close" to it. So, inspired by the one-of-a-kind vision of nature's possibilities, he killed it with a crossbow.