When Elmo decided to check the emotional pulse of the internet on Monday and ask, “How is everybody doing?” the fiery-colored Muppet couldn’t have anticipated the seismic response he’d receive. Elmo’s ...

LAPORTE — There perhaps has never been a mayor in LaPorte quite like Elmo Gonzalez, who died Friday at his home in Arlington Heights, Ill. He was 98. Gonzalez was known during his two terms as mayor ...