At the National Museum of American History one day last July, an upright piano stood on a stage. Beside it, on a wooden pallet, was a strange metal contraption about five feet high. The Ring King Jr., ...

In 38 years on the stage, Funnyman Joe Cook has thought up some 1,000 implausible inventions of the Rube Goldberg order, never sold one until last week. Then he sold one for $1,000. It was a ...

SIOUX CITY - Sarah Kragthorpe's voice rises as she explains the long-lost Sioux City tradition she's bringing back. "If you were a child and got a couple of Sunshine doughnuts and a ride on Sandy, the ...