The first photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il released in two months (bottom) show him in a setting very similar to photographs from August (top). ...more

October 14, 2008

The Family Readiness Group of the Bravo Battery, 3/116th FA MLRS local National Guard military unit, along with a Springfield College group project called "Touched By Angels," will be having a fundraising yard sale at the Avon Park Armory on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. ...more

September 10, 2008

Let's face it: This isn't the sort of summer when you decide to finally take that trip to Italy. This is the sort of summer when you spend your vacation reading a good book in the backyard. Take a trip with your mind. Save some cash. You get the picture. Here are some new choices this week. ...more

June 29, 2008

The military telegram arrived in Peekskill, N.Y., on a springlike day in February 1945. The parents put it down unopened, falling to their knees to pray. Three of their five sons were pilots fighting overseas, and they were afraid to learn which of their boys was dead. ...more

February 3, 2008

Many former militia commanders and residents in northern Afghanistan have been hoarding illegal weapons in violation of the country's disarmament laws, giving the excuse that they face a spreading Taliban insurgency from the south that government forces alone are too frail to stop, Afghan and Western officials say. ...more

October 28, 2007