Her Cellphone Vanished in a Lethal Drone Strike. Then Came a ‘Miracle.’

Oneida Oliver-Sanders, mother of Army Reserve Sgt. Kennedy L. Sanders, makes Memorial Day craft packages for elementary school students at her home in Waycross, Georgia.

An iPhone with a cartoony, angel-winged teddy bear on its case kept catching the soldier’s eye. The phone was stashed in the closet of a back room in what amounted to a lost-and-found locker at a remote U.S. military outpost in the Jordanian desert. Staff Sgt. Zachary Winthers of the Illinois Army National Guard had […]

Calif. Army Vet Admits to Killing Kindergartner who Vanished on Walk to School

A judge bangs the gavel.

A U.S. Army veteran has admitted to killing a kindergartner on her walk to school, a crime that shocked the quiet Monterey County town of Seaside. Robert John Lanoue, 72, who pleaded guilty this week, will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Five-year-old Anne Pham was one of 10 siblings living at […]