World War II was one of the most transformative events of the 20th century. It was the largest war ever fought, with more than 50 nations and 100 million troops involved, and it reshaped geopolitics, ...

Half a dozen programs have helped to serve 11 million free meals among all South Dakota counties in the half-century of service.

Rohrer was the co-founder and board chairman of Honor Flight South Dakota (a four-year project that raised money for/and conducted 12 separate charter trips to honor local World War II veterans ...

At least three states — Hawai'i, Alaska and South Dakota — have ... for the nation, some Native people had never lost their languages. During World War II, members from 15 tribes joined ...

Mitchel County’s St. Ansgar First Lutheran Church, founded in 1853 and dedicated to Scandinavia’s patron saint, the French Benedictine monk who Christianized Denmark and Sweden in the 9th century, is ...

The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...

World War II fighter ace Joe Foss, shown in January 1964, was the first commissioner of the American Football ... or two-term governor of his native South Dakota -- Foss did not cower in the ...

The North Dakota native was 17 when she went to work ... in Normandy for the D-Day anniversary, part of a veterans group flown over by American Airlines. "All the men were at the war.

It was named for Henry Lewis Benning, a Columbus native. In the pre-Civil War South, he was a lawyer, judge and politician who opposed the emancipation of African American slaves. He argued ...

A 24-year-old airman has been charged with killing a Native American woman who went missing in South Dakota about seven ...

The first, published in The Economist, is titled “American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits.” As the title suggests, it questions the disability benefits that veterans receive.