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LATHAM — Several promotions of area members of the New York Army National Guard wear announced this week. • Kane Carlson of Steamburg, assigned to the...

BYRAM, N.J. (AP) — A Fort Drum soldier and a 16-year-old boy have been charged in the murder and kidnapping of a 20-year-old soldier found buried unde...

BYRAM, N.J. (AP) — Authorities on Monday were holding a U.S. Army soldier in the death of a fellow soldier from Tennessee who was found shot to death ...

The missing soldier from Fort Drum has been found dead, Army officials said Sunday in a statement. The investigation into the death of Corporal Hayden...

Gen. Lloyd Austin, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of defense, represents a laudable first: If confirmed he’d be the first African A...

Chuck Yeager died this week, at 97. It’s amazing that a great movie has never been made of his life. His was a life that, if anything, was larger than...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — About 1,600 New York National Guard members who are helping the state fight COVID-19 will be among the first members of the U.S. mi...

A Gowanda native’s book has earned belated honors for a little-remembered yet critical World War II general — who had a connection to St. Bonaventure ...

PORTVILLE — A few months after graduation, a young Portville woman left her home to serve her country — and didn’t return. On Saturday, her community ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Navy sailor Mickey Ganitch was getting ready to play in a Pearl Harbor football game as the sun came up on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, he s...

In yet another expression of lame-duck pique, President Donald Trump has threatened to veto the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act over provision...

President-elect Joe Biden named his national security team last week. Antony Blinken will be nominated for secretary of state; Jake Sullivan for natio...

WASHINGTON — With less than two months left in his term, President Donald Trump still has time to make some final impulsive moves on foreign policy th...

A twisty, narrow way in the cramped heart of Vienna’s oldest quarter, a busy street in an upscale neighborhood of Tehran and remote woods in Nigeria s...

From a hearing on the “death turn” to saving Olean from floods, from the loss of a St. Bonaventure great to a good Samaritan saving the day, here’s a ...

WELLSVILLE — With a light rain falling, the American Legion Post 702 honored service men and women on Veteran’s Day in Veteran’s Memorial Park. Despit...

By mid-October 1968, I had arrived in Vietnam to begin my nearly 400-day odyssey. Basic training at Fort Dix, military police school in Georgia and th...

Readers might have noted the passing last month of World War II veteran Joseph Leo of Cuba. He died Oct. 8 at the age of 94 — he would have turned 95 ...