Ron Soodalter News Today

ANGRA DOS REIS, Brazil — Gilson Rambelli motored out into the dark waters, thinking of the crime that had haunted him for years. The evidence of it was down there,

American LCS gunboats were pound for pound the most heavily armed ships in the Pacific during World War II.

The captain-turned-pirate sank the stolen ship 170 years ago, but the wreckage remained lost until now, experts said.

A family scrapbook records the little-remembered history of tobacco country's fraught past.

True West Magazine Emiliano Zapata Who’s Who Letters from the Archives When people would write in and say they knew or saw so-and-so, it captivated me. It made True West even truer, or at least produced evidence of it being true. It was kind of surreal. It would be interesting for the magazine to do a “flashback” and look at some of those old letters. Keep up the good work. —John Volz Lagrange, Kentucky You are right. When I was growing up, those letters really intrigued me. Here (at ...