Nearly 26 years ago, on May 31, 1995, after intense lobbying by the late retired Air Force Col. Charles Woodford of Cape Girardeau and others, then-Gov. Mel Carnahan signed a bill establishing the ...

To Les Clancy's trained eye, this was a mule that needed saving. "I had a mule donation from up north and it was an extremely rough mule," Clancy recalled. "It was long-haired and wormy-looking. He ...

Sorghum farmer Walter Schlemper of Franklin County talks about his all-time favorite mule, Pete: “He was the smartest. You could just hear the tumblers going round in his mind. I’d put him away and go ...