The Six Triple Eight shares the story of an all-Black battalion of WACs that faced unimaginable challenges while serving overseas during WWII.

Bird flu does not present a food safety risk. The Board of Animal Health says cooked poultry and eggs and pasteurized dairy ...

Finishing fourth when medals are on the line can feel like cruel punishment. Paula Moltzan knows the feeling all too well ...

Eighty years after World War II, Gov. Jim Pillen created a medal to honor living veterans of the war. This week he visited ...

In 1941, a segregated airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama, was selected as the primary flight training facility for black pilot candidates in the United States military.   They were known as the ...

The Virginia National Guard post formerly known as Fort Pickett was renamed Fort Barfoot after Tech. Sgt. Van T. Barfoot on March 24, making the Home of Army Aviation’s name change the first at an ...

A Medal of Honor recipient's portrait and citation are now out of a courthouse closet and back up on a courthouse wall. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph recently ran a letter to the editor from Ed ...

Carl Schrat, a World War II veteran who served in the navy, was joined by Gov. Jim Pillen and honored at a World War II medal ...

Thomas Hawkins served and died in World War II, part of the elite group of African American pilots known as Tuskegee Airmen.

I knew my mom was a WAC (Women’s Army Corps) but didn't know the details or historical significance until Tyler Perry released 'The Six Triple Eight' ...

The two human services buildings — the almshouse and hospital — likely were the fourth and fifth buildings under county watch ...