Bruce Crandall was a soldier once … and young. As a 32-year-old helicopter pilot, he flew through a gantlet of enemy fire, taking ammunition in and wounded Americans out of one of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War, Army records say.
Now, a week after his 74th birthday, Crandall received the nation’s highest military honor [...]

The closest Emily Lineberger has come to driving was putting around in her grandparents’ golf cart.
But the 11-year-old brought her mother’s car to a safe stop Tuesday night after Dayna Lineberger passed out behind the wheel. “It was just her instinct and God riding on her shoulders,” Lineberger said Thursday.
The two were heading to Emily’s [...]

I know, firsthand, the most awkward of all human relationships–that of estranged parent and child who are trying to find common ground on which to connect. I’ve helped many parents and adoptees compile their stories in their own words for publishers, newspaper features and televised interviews, yet my wastebasket is filled with my aborted attempts [...]

This is the moment an Eccles man shared a tearful reunion with the brother he last saw 82 years ago and was told had died.
Fred Fox last saw his brother when he was five and Norman was 18-months-old.
Last weekend at the age of 87 and 83 respectively they were finally reunited.
Fred said: “It was a [...]

1985: Beirut car bomb kills dozens
At least 45 people have died and 175 have been injured in a car bomb explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
The bomb went off outside a block of flats and close to a mosque as worshippers were gathering for Friday night prayers in a densely populated Shia Muslim suburb.
It is the worst [...]