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The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War — a fraternal nonprofit organization that works to preserve the history of Union Civil War soldiers — announced it is forming a new chapter to …

Michael Jones, who was the Director of the General John A. Logan Museum and likely one of the worlds leading historians on General John A. Logan, has died following a

Margaret Thatcher's legacy was forever tarnished by the ten IRA hunger strikers who died on her watch. Will Guantanamo's protesters be Obama's black mark?

17-year-old boy Eric Sweeney is facing three counts of first-degree murder charges for allegedly killing his sister-in-law and her two young sons.

The Columbus Riflemen were a storied Columbus military unit that had been organized in 1837. They had served with valor in the Mexican War, the Civil War and the Spanish American War. It was a distinctively Columbus unit with its armory located in city hall. In 1916 they and the Caledonia Rifles were the Lowndes County companies in the Mississippi National Guard. That all soon changed.

Victor Rivera, 47, of Nashua, N.H., was arrested Saturday morning for fatally shooting a man and a woman, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.

 

These are upcoming events in O’Fallon, Shiloh and surrounding Illinois cities.

Many other festivals, markets and fun fall events take place in the metro-east and St. Louis area this weekend.

Nearly 80 years after a Rogers County man named Sgt. Isaac W. Brantley died on Omaha Beach in France, Oklahoma State Representative Terry O’Donnell traveled to Normandy to not only