One dove onto a live grenade in Iraq. He died, but his fellow SEALS lived. ...more

November 18, 2008

Medals of Honor will be awarded today to two Navy SEALs killed in action overseas. The ceremony today will be at the Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base. ...more

November 17, 2008

The deadliest three months for American forces in Afghanistan have pushed the U.S. death toll to at least 500, forcing a war long overshadowed by Iraq back into the headlines. ...more

August 8, 2008

Insurgents armed with machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades mounted a fierce assault on a remote, relatively lightly manned U.S. outpost in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing nine American soldiers. ...more

July 14, 2008

The Rev. Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, arranged more than 18 months ago to visit the Rev. Forrest Pollock, the senior pastor at Bell Shoals Baptist Church. ...more

May 26, 2008

As sunlight poked through the redwoods and a fiddler played 18th-century Scottish tunes, residents gathered recently for the Canyon Payphone Jubilee, a celebration that could occur, perhaps, only in this isolated, independent community on the eastern face of the Oakland hills. ...more

September 7, 2007