Our best of 2012 continues today with a lady named Barbara who was a teenager living in Japan when World War II ended. Her country’s…

When people began attending funerals here, many had the exact same reaction. They mentioned that when they passed, they wanted a funeral just like that….

It’s been over 150 years since Illinois soldiers faced Santa Anna in the Mexican War. However, traces of that battle fought over 1500 miles to…

Today a transcontinental flight from New York to L.A. might take about five hours. But do you know how long the first such flight took?…

It’s a tradition the last week of each year we give you the “Best of the American Countryside.” And in 2012 we interviewed 110 year…

It was Christmas 1945. German POWs at Camp Algona in Algona, Iowa would be returning to Europe the next year. This was the final Christmas…

At first glance, it might appear to be an odd request. A U.S. commander asked a group of German POWs to construct a nativity scene…

Santa needs his sleigh to make deliveries around the world and this man makes sure he’ll never run out of transportation…..

In 1968, O.J Simpson won the Heisman Trophy, but it was this man who was runner-up in the Heisman balloting that year. His story is…

Although California and Alaska are most often the epicenter of major earthquakes in the United States, it was the Midwest that produced one of the…