Miss Mitchell, a World War II B-25 bomber, will be at the Allen County Regional Airport from noon to 6 p.m. today. The event is brought by the Commemorative Air Force Minnesota Wing. Visitors can…

A number of local veterans will attend Friday’s funeral services for Staff Sgt. David Holeman, a LaHarpe native who died as a World War II prisoner of war in the Philippines. Holeman is being buried…

More than 80 years after his death in the Philippines, the body of Staff Sgt. David Emory Holeman is coming home. Though Holeman has no connection to Independence, he will be afforded full military honors…

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — In a modern conservation laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, a man wearing blue rubber gloves uses a scalpel to scrape away rust from the eyelets of small…

The Kentucky Derby is a tradition that’s never been canceled. Postponed once by World War II and again by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, America’s greatest race has rolled on since 1875. At Churchill Downs…

WASHINGTON — David E. Holeman, who was 39 when he was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, has finally been accounted for more than 80 years after his death.…

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $488,000, a sum…

“I came here to see a plane I haven’t seen in 50 years,” Ron Smith said, smiling as he made his way across the concrete apron of the Allen County Regional Airport. His target: Naked…

More than 5 million people have fled Ukraine since Moscow’s brutal invasion began, the United Nations reported last week. I wonder how many of the children forced from their homes — some escaping by train, others on foot — will see their…

The undersea volcano that erupted off the coast of Tonga this month was “hundreds of times” more powerful than the nuclear bomb that hit Hiroshima in World War II, according to NASA. The Jan. 15…