Meet Jack and Jim, a pair of 3-year-old Devon oxen that will be making their debut at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster this weekend. The two oxen were donated by the museum’s Hoff Barn ...

Stash looked at me through his fringe of shaggy hair as I shouted, “Walk on!” He just stood staring at me with a puzzled look on his face. I was standing about six feet in front of him and using the ...

On a recent afternoon amid the hype of children, rides and fried-food bliss, one very large OC Fair employee stands out from the crowd – a black-and-white, 6-foot-tall ox named Patches. Patches, a ...

With firm commands, Don Hoff and Karen Butler guided the Carroll County Farm Museum’s team of oxen around the yard Tuesday as the two beasts of burden pulled a large tire behind them. Jack and Jim, a ...

Chicago rapper Valee burst onto the scene earlier this year when he was signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music and released GOOD Job, You Found Me. While he's yet to officially announce his debut ...

Sweat drips down Todd Clark's forehead as he jostles his oxen Buck and Robie into the center of the ring. Clark hollers calls and taps the oxen's noses with a goat stick lining them up to the cement ...

A Woodbury man charged with cruelty to animals during a Durham Fair ox pull said he was only doing what he’s done all of his life. David Ferris, 30, said Saturday his family has been entering such ...

Since Calumet Avenue has punched its way through to U.S. 30, it is easy to see how land in the middle part of Lake County is likely to develop. From the overpass, one can look down not at corn sprouts ...