(CNN) — A sword taken from a historical monument in Westfield, Massachusetts has been returned by the man who took it as part of a college prank about 40 years ago, according to a city official. Cindy ...

WESTFIELD, Mass. – A veteran returned a sword he stole from a statue of a Revolutionary War general 40 years ago, telling the head of the Massachusetts town’s historical commission that he regretted ...

The returned sword will likely be kept in a local museum, the Springfield Republican reported Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018.

Officials in Vermont say that a bronze sword that recently went missing from the statue of a Revolutionary War general has been returned. The sword is thought to have gone missing from the statue of ...