Like a prize-winning state fair pumpkin, the idea took root. Deb Wiley, a fifth-generation Iowan and many-year visitor to the Iowa fair, was on board. To give this piece of investigative journalism ...

The swagger was there and so was the weight as roly-poly Duke took the title of Big Boar at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday in front of a standing-room-only crowd. While Duke's girth was enough to ...