John Alan Abel March 19, 1959 ~ Aug. 29, 2018 Resident of Martinez Alan Abel, 59, passed away at home on Aug. 29 after a long battle with cancer. He had just returned to Martinez in June after living ...

Twenty years before Sacha Baron Cohen was even born, a hoaxer was taking the brave new world of 1950s mass media by storm. You might call him the grandfather of Borat. Alan Abel, who has barnstormed ...

Alan Abel duped the nation — and The New York Times — with his satirical nonprofit, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals. Artifacts in The Times’s archives serve as embarrassing reminders. By ...

Professional prankster Alan Abel will make his second trip to Fargo in less than three months. Abel will speak at a screening of "Abel Raises Cain" on Saturday at the Fargo Theatre. The documentary ...