Decades after World War II, USS Wisconsin and USS Missouri were pulled from retirement, modernized, and sent into action once more—this time, in the Persian Gulf. As Saddam Hussein’s invasion of ...

Here are some pioneering women who forever changed the modern military landscape: Private Cathay Williams, aka William Cathay Post-Civil War Born a slave near Jefferson City, Missouri, Cathay ...

Iraqi naval forces have seized an unidentified ship in Iraqi territorial waters in the Gulf suspected of smuggling fuel, the ...

The United States under President Donald Trump has launched a new campaign of intense airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi ...

Loomis Hall, originally Academic Hall at Alton College, now houses the Alton Museum of History and Art.

When Ron “Curly” Albrecht graduated from high school at Waverly-Shell Rock in the early ’70s he did not want to stay on the ...

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, U.S. Central ...

The film focuses on the original USS Montana, a Navy armored cruiser commissioned in 1908 and decommissioned in 1921, and the current Virginia class fast-attack nuclear submarine now part of the ...

Durham Regional Police have laid a series of charges against a 16-year-old male following a stabbing at Uxbridge Secondary School. Officers from North Division were called to the school Feb. 3 ...

The deadliest tornado in recorded U.S. history occurred 100 years ago. The Tri-State Tornado touched down in southeastern ...

The leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq's prime minister announced on Friday. Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or "Abu Khadija," was killed in an operation by members ...