During decades as a journalist, I had countless conversations with interesting people — future presidents, wannabe leaders, governors, business executives, religious thinkers, crooks, and ordinary ...

“If you can’t go through life helping people, even if it’s only a dead elephant, then there’s no use in you being here.” — Wade Meloan, Oquawka pharmacist, elephant undertaker, workaday philosopher ...

MONMOUTH — Where do you hide a dead elephant? That sounds like the set-up for a silly riddle. But it’s a real quest by the Warren County History Museum, which is seeking the burial spot of Nizzie, an ...