You have questions about the area, and every couple of weeks we try to answer one. OKI Wanna Know is your opportunity to scratch your intellectual itch. This week, we track down a missing statue and the man it portrayed, with WVXU's Bill Rinehart.

Nancy Clark of Newport was walking along the banks of the Ohio River recently.

"I want to know what happened to the statue of James Bradley. It's a bronze statue. He was sitting along Riverside Drive in Covington," she says. "He survived the floods we had in April. But as of Memorial Day the bench is empty. So where did he go?"

Before we find out where he went, we should know where he came from.

James Bradley moved to Cincinnati from Louisiana, according to Dan Hurley with Applied History Associates.

"James Bradley was a person who was born

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