Axel Hodges was a natural politician; he never met a palm he didn’t like. The Bernese Mountain dog who in 2018 ran for ”mayor” of Columbia’s Shandon neighborhood has died. He would have ...

Axel, the 9-year-old Bernese Mountain dog who successfully campaigned as the "mayor" of the Shandon neighborhood in Columbia, died in his sleep Oct. 13, the Hodges confirmed.