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Staff Report UPCOMING THANK A VETERAN: The Three Rivers Chapter DAR is once again partnering with the City of Milton in a project to honor our veterans. Individualized tribute banners will be hung throughout the downtown area from Memorial Day through Veterans Day.  Email srtake@bellsouth.net for more information. The deadline for sponsoring a military tribute banner is May 1. MILTON PIECEMAKERS QUILT GUILD: The guild meets 9 a.m., second Mondays at the Bagdad Methodist Church, 4540 Forsyth St., Milton. Open to those interested in quilting and joining the guild. This is not a Bagdad ...

TORSTEN OVE Pittsbugh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP Michael Kemple, 93 poses for a portrait at his home Wednesday, Jan. 6, in Elizabeth, Pa. Kemple served in the United States Merchant Marines from 1944 to 1945. During his tour, he served aboard a ship that transported supplies to the Russian port city of Murmansk. PITTSBURGH — Winston Churchill described it as the “worst journey in the world,” and two local Merchant Marine veterans in their 90s are among the last left in the U.S. to have endured it. These were the World War II Arctic convoys to the Russian ports of Murman...

Russia is saying thank you to the remaining Merchant Marine veterans — 17 at last count — by presenting them with the Medal of Ushakov.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Winston Churchill described it as the “worst journey in the world,” and two local Merchant Marine veterans in their 90s are among the last left in the U.S. to have endured...

Danielle Anderson, Correspondent It was a chance meeting in a restaurant in Panama City Beach, Florida, that created an unlikely relationship between a motorcycle club and a young man whose ability to defy the odds landed him smack dab in Flagler County on Dec. 20, to make a wish come true. Born with a number of serious medical anomalies, including hetertaxy (a condition in which internal organs are arranged abnormally) and complex congenital heart disease, 14-year old Austin Booth shouldn’t have made it past his 9th birthday, according to his mother, Angie. But with a fighting spirit and t...