Joe Tacheny remembers the day his older brothers went to war. They were among several dozen young men from Litchfield and surrounding area who boarded a troop train on a brutally cold night in ...

and the decade that followed featured dozens of major movies with explicit Cold War plots — “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951), “Big Jim McLain” (1952) and “North by Northwest ...

The Chicago Bears are mourning the loss of a franchise legend on Wednesday. Gene Schroeder, who had been the NFL's oldest ...

In 1952, when President Harry S. Truman attempted to take over the nation’s steel mills via executive order to avert a workers’ strike during the Korean War, the Supreme Court ruled that he ...

Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...

But the catastrophic events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were thrust into Japan’s public consciousness only after the country regained independence in 1952 ... World War II; Sept. 8, 1951, the ...

Obviously, somebody mentioned something to her in the early 1950s, perhaps quite soon after the succession" in 1952. Hanley had pushed ... by MI5 during World War II but the secret services ...

772: Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. 1327: Teenager Edward III is crowned king of England but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. 1587: ...

The family of Ed and Gail Yaegle are very pleased to announce the couple’s 70th anniversary on Feb. 12. Ed and Gail Yaegle ...