Herb Schaper was a big man with a little brainstorm in 1948. A whittler of wooden fishing lures on his Robbinsdale porch, Schaper was doodling on scratch paper one night, attempting to devise a better ...

"Cooties" refers to a highly infectious disease. The word "cootie" derives from the Tagalog word "kutu," or "parasitic biting insect." The related word "kudis" translates to "playground death." The ...

Name someone you like, or maybe don’t, after a "Cutie" butterfly or "Cootie" cockroach this month at the Butterfly House. The third annual "Cuties or Cooties" event takes place all month long to ...