The COVID-19 pandemic raged across the Joplin metro landscape. People were scared; some were hospitalized, others were quarantined, some had already died. A stay-at-home order was in place. Folks ...

There's a new book out that is unlike any other -- it features characters with names like Hawaii creeper and bufflehead -- and strangest of all: it tweets. And it doesn't tweet in the 21st century, ...