When a team of archaeologists followed an ancient trail marked by stone cairns to the top of a mountain in Norway, they weren ...

a dark figure hopped over a six-foot-tall wooden fence and opened up Star VII’s cage to release perhaps the nation’s most famous reindeer into the dark Anchorage night at 6:30 on Feb. 20.

While Star was being taken, Whitehead and Anderson had been sitting just feet away, oblivious to the reindeer-napping in their midst. It seemed so brazen, he said. Stealing a reindeer? Then things ...