Fifty-nine letters, bound by a brittle rubber band, saved in a dresser drawer for a half-century. Wartime letters sent by my father to my mother at her family home in Chicago, written in his own…

From the humorous to the heartfelt — and occasionally the heart-breaking — the W-ICT RadioLand Players are here to transport the audience back 80 years or so, to a time when the world was at…

From the safety of a headset, you can experience a German concentration camp. Even then, it takes courage. The Iola Public Library’s “Holocaust VR Experience” transpires through a virtual reality headset. Instantly, the viewer is…

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — World War II veterans from the United States, Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler’s defeat. Few…

Miss Mitchell, a World War II-era B-25 Mitchell bomber, had a bit of a homecoming on Wednesday.  The Commemorative Air Force Minnesota Wing brought the plane to Kansas City for a reunion of the 310th…

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…