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…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bob Dole was honored Friday at Washington National Cathedral and the World War II monument he helped create as top leaders from both parties saluted the longtime Kansas senator’s ability to practice…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bob Dole will lie in state today at the U.S. Capitol, as the president and others gather to pay tribute to an “American giant” who served the country in war and in…

HANOVER — “He is finally home!  After almost 79 years, he is finally home!” So reads the obituary published earlier this month for Pvt. Robert Herynk, who was killed at age 27 on Thanksgiving Day,…

(TNS) — Russia suffered its deadliest September since World War II, according to figures published Friday, even before the peak of its current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic forced authorities to order non-working days for…

A living piece of World War II aviation history will be back in Iola Wednesday. A B-25J — Miss Mitchell — stopped in Iola for refueling Sunday while en route from Minnesota to San Antonio,…