Contrast to lore, Ruth was not truly an orphan. He was born in Baltimore on the coldest day of the year, Feb. 6, 1895, in the ...

On a near-cloudless, sunny but chilly day last week, Ralph E. Wadleigh, 85, got down on a knee and hammered a short metal ...

Tuesday is National Medal of Honor Day, celebrating the thousands of service members since 1861 who have been awarded the ...