Mayor Thomas Koch was 12 when he first met Navy Capt. Richard Stratton, a Vietnam War hero and former prisoner of war, one of ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

The Kossuth County Conservation Board is currently taking applications from anyone interested in securing a camp site for the entire summer on the north side of Smith Lake. Conservation Board Director ...

The City of Algona saw a slight decrease in hotel/motel tax receipts over the last year. The Algona City Council received a presentation Tuesday from a couple of the local groups who receive funding ...

bowls, bottles, boots, and fired rounds. To read about traces of a wartime POW camp in Scotland, go to "The Marks of Time: WWI Military Camp." ...

A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

George is a 1997 graduate of Algona High School and played football for Iowa State after graduating. He now lives in Altadena, Calif. with his wife Elisa and their two children, Anna, 10 and Georgie, ...

ALGONA—In a battle of ranked teams that were the last two unbeaten teams in North Central Conference girls basketball play, the No. 10 ranked Algona Bulldogs handed the 12 th-rated Hampton-Dumont ...

Australia has vowed it will take the “strongest action possible” if Russia has harmed one of its nationals captured fighting for Ukraine, after reports emerged the prisoner of war may have ...

Australian authorities were seeking comment from Russia on reports that the Melbourne school teacher had been killed since he became a prisoner of war. Albanese said Australia’s Department of Foreign ...

Australian authorities were seeking comment from Russia on reports that the Melbourne school teacher had been killed since he became a prisoner of war. Albanese said Australia’s Department of ...

The life of a Perthshire soldier shot dead while escaping from a German Prisoner of War camp is being researched by his great nephew. Alex Crawford (59) is putting together a record of piper ...