Robert Wadlow is the tallest man who ever lived, and died tragically young at 22 at a height of 8 feet 11.1 inches ...

By age 13, he was a Boy Scout, helping design customised equipment. The Alton Giant, as he was popularly called, graduated from high school in 1936 and attended Shurtleff College briefly with the ...

The fish stories told in Alton on Saturday were about the ones that didn’t get away. Large catfish were again center stage during the annual Twisted Cat Outdoors Fishing Series tournament as anglers ...