ASHLAND – Heffelfinger's Meats has been a lifelong staple of the Ashland meat packing and market community. And now, owner Rick Heffelfinger has opened a second store along U.S. Route 250 in Ashland, ...

The origin of professional football is traced to an iconic Minnesotan born just 10 blocks north of where Super Bowl LII will be played on Sunday. William (Pudge) Heffelfinger arrived Dec. 20, 1867 in ...

The name of the first professional football player seems too perfect to be true. Pudge Heffelfinger sounds like a mythical Midwestern gridiron god more than a living, breathing human being.

The story of William “Pudge” Heffelfinger and the birth of professional football 120-plus years ago is now fairly well known. Heffelfinger was paid $500 to play one game for the Allegheny Athletic ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tom Heffelfinger, the former U.S. attorney for Minnesota who in 2007 found himself thrust into the controversy over the Bush administration’s dismissals of U.S. attorneys, is ...

Barbara Josephine Backer Heffelfinger was many things — a devoted wife, mother, friend, volunteer and traveler, and an avid golfer. But her family and friends are most likely to remember her as a ...