On a recent day in Hannibal, Mo., the boyhood hometown of Mark Twain, the Mississippi River was running fast and muddy, with some chop — a fitting metaphor for the final stage of the presidential ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) — Nancy Lee Kaufman was prominent in the arts scene in chic Santa Fe, N.M., and later made her woven art along the ocean near San Diego. So how did she end up living in a previously ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) — It was a century-and-a-half ago that Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain. His hometown of Hannibal will mark the occasion with a special event Saturday. Clemens was born in 1835 in ...

Saturday the Southeast Missourian Centennial Celebration will offer hours of entertainment ranging from Sousa-style march music, Creole sounds, a 13-year-old bluegrass prodigy, and magic to the wisdom ...