Despite e-mail fodder, McCain makes smart move

A month ago, I would have flunked a social studies pop quiz that included the question: Who is the governor of Alaska? Frankly, I had no idea and probably would have scribbled something stupid.

Heartless: Gretchen has more soul anyway

So the aging hippie-chick Wilson sisters of the 1970s-80s rock band Heart object to their song "Barracuda" being played at McCain Palin events.

Ex-Marine in arms haul a gun-for-hire under Navy commodore

Harph Cabaluna, a former Marine private arrested after an arms cache at his condominium unit in Mandaluyong City caught fire Saturday, has told police that he is a gun-for-hire being employed by a Navy ...

Ron Simon: Friendship unites Vietnam veterans through 40 years of memories

When guys my age start having 40-year reunions, it's time to realize Vietnam veterans are becoming museum pieces.

Soldier hurt, rebel killed in Oriental Mindoro clash

A soldier was wounded while an alleged member of the New People's Army died in an encounter in a remote village of Baco, Oriental Mindoro Sunday morning.

War Stories Out of the Class of 9/11

They entered West Point as peacetime cadets - and left as war-ready soldiers headed to Middle East battlegrounds.

Marine held for Mandaluyong arms cache AWOL since 2002

The Philippine Marine Corps denied on Sunday that the Marine sergeant nabbed for allegedly storing high-powered firearms and explosives inside his condominium unit in Mandaluyong City is still active in ...

Women's 'Double Bind'

S arah Palin is no Hillary Clinton. And vice versa. In the nine days since Alaska's rookie governor became Sen.

Memorial dedicated to soldiers, Novak

TWO RIVERS - U.S. Army Spc. Shaun Novak's dog tags hang from a bronze rifle at the new Armed Forces Memorial unveiled Saturday afternoon at Holy Cross-Forest View Cemetery.

'Sea of Greed' was real

The story began when a suspicious shrimper called Bobby M slipped into Beaufort Inlet one night in July 1982.