Partridges live in Eastern Washington, the nation’s No. 1 pear producer. Even so, you will probably never see a partridge in a pear tree. How could that be? After all, the repetitive first line of the ...

There’s a Christmas song titled "The Twelve Days of Christmas" that mentions a partridge in a pear tree. Did I find one in a Southeast Missouri fence row? The answer is no. Although there is a ...

In Tuscany there has been a wine called holy, made by the drying of white or red grapes on straw mats to concentrate the sugars and intensify the flavors, then aged in cherry, chestnut or juniper wood ...

December is National Pear Month, not just because we hear about them in a famous Christmas carol, but because most of the varieties are in season. There are six main states in the U.S. that produce ...

A hearing on who will have custody of nearly 200 neglected animals seized from a house in Harrison County last week will be held Tuesday. A menagerie -- including 68 dogs, seven miniature horses, 26 ...