Veterans of Foreign Wars

Strangers gathered together at East Thompson Cemetery Friday morning to honor a local veteran who they had never met. “We are all here and we are all here for one reason. That is to honor our veterans and Lionel in particular,” said Khrystne Keane, who drove to Thompson from Watertown. “I do not know Lionel. I had never heard of…

Strangers gathered together at East Thompson Cemetery Friday morning to honor a local veteran who they had never met.

John Corcoran died of an alleged heart attack in April while vacationing in the Dominican Republic where three other American tourists have recently died.

Charlie Winter is a devoted dad who would do anything for his kids. He’d throw himself in front a train — and even a shark. That’s exactly what the North Carolina dad did Sunday when his 17-year-old daughter, Paige, was attacked by a shark in Atlantic Beach at Fort Macon State Park. The heroic dad punched the shark five times...

In honor of the men and women who gave their lives in service to the United States, dozens of volunteers placed 12,000 American flags, one at each headstone, in the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown on Saturday morning.

Although he died with no known family, the sanctuary at Indiana’s Allisonville Christian Church was nearly full Saturday afternoon for one veteran’s funeral service.

Back-to-back break-ins at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5157 in Watertown are more than just crime scenes for Commander Norman Cote, they are personal blows.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law an updated veterans’ education bill that marks the largest expansion of college assistance for military veterans in a decade. The Forever GI act immediately removed a 15-year time limit on the use of GI benefits. The measure also increases financial assistance for thousands serving in the National Guard and Reserve, building on...

The House rejected Monday a plan to allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to shift $2 billion from other programs to cover a sudden budget shortfall in its Choice program of private-sector care following opposition from veterans’ groups.

Planning for a military burial was underway Wednesday after a widow came forward to say three urns left outside a Southern California church contained the cremated remains of her in-laws and her husband, a man police said was a US Army Vietnam War veteran.