Victor Lloyd Clemett was orphaned before he was 7. When he was 5, his mother died of complications from the birth of his little sister. Less than two years later, on Valentine’s Day, his father died.
A cousin of one of his parents raised Clemett and his siblings. When he was just 16 years old, he [...]

With his garrison cap, steady gaze and square jaw, Allen Price of the 3275th Quartermaster Service Company, Omaha Beach, looks like another avatar of the Greatest Generation. He even complains as those superhumans do: levelly, economically, without anger or sadness.
“You see these movies,” he says. “Like ‘The Longest Day’ — you don’t see no African-Americans. [...]

Some contend that the bones cemented into the ground at Mobridge, S.D., aren’t those of Sitting Bull, but of an unknown man placed in his grave in the middle of the night after the Hunkpapa Sioux leader’s death.
For a century or more, rumors have circulated that Sitting Bull’s body was spirited away by his followers [...]

What would happen if an astronaut came unglued in space and, say, destroyed the ship’s oxygen system or tried to open the hatch and kill everyone aboard?
That was the question on some minds after the apparent breakdown of Lisa Nowak, arrested in Orlando this month on charges she tried to kidnap and kill a woman [...]

A city bus driver is lauded as a hero after he leapt off his bus and snatched a 3-year-old girl from traffic. The bus security cameras show the girl getting off the bus with a cheery “Bye!” and walking straight into traffic on a busy street. Chris Leslie, 38, is pictured streaking out the door [...]