During his 28 years as sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Harry Lee supervised hundreds of undercover agents. But about 230 of those held a special place in his heart, even though they weren't great at ...

John Maddox loved business, and he loved the outdoors. One let him indulge the other. When Maddox died nearly two years ago, he left a large, complex estate with collections of property and duck ...

HAMMONTON, N.J. - Some 300 ducks are nesting in the third-floor storage room of Hammonton’s Town Hall. The ducks — decoys from the collection of Fred Noyes — are among about 3,000 items from the Noyes ...

Norfolk auctioneer Randy Fiel’s latest auction, the one taking up half of his showroom on Monticello Avenue, is one he won’t soon forget. “We went out and saw it and I was flabbergasted,” said Fiel.

SHELBURNE – As the fall duck season approaches, a hunter's thoughts might turn to decoys. So might a museum-goer's. Decoys — more than a thousand of them, spanning nearly two centuries — are among the ...

Hand-crafted wooden duck decoys, with their intricate carvings and painted designs, attract more than just unsuspecting ducks that mistake them for the real thing and end up getting bagged by hunters.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck! Right? Not this time, it’s a duck decoy. Actually, it’s a collection of 70 on exhibit at the Atlantic Wildfowl Heritage Museum. Mark Cromwell, ...