Veteran receiver Torry Holt has agreed to a three-year contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Callers have inundated the phone lines of Tracy police, saying it can’t be. Veteran homicide and sex-crime researchers say they cannot recall a case quite like it. Even the investigators themselves looked at the evidence and initially said “no way.”

Even 20 years later, the shooting, chaos and death of the final assault on Tiananmen Square remain vivid in the mind of former soldier Zhang Shijun. Today, he has become one of the few to publicly voice regret.

Veteran diplomat Christopher Hill on Tuesday won the support of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar to become the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq, even as other GOP senators bluntly urged President Barack Obama to reconsider his nomination.

The last British survivor of World War I’s grinding trench warfare was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor on Monday.

Authorities arrested a man who claimed he was justified in stealing candy at a truck stop because he had served in the military. Police said an officer confronted a 31-year-old man at the truck stop early Monday morning. The officer reported finding sever

Veteran women’s wear designer Antonio Marras made his menswear debut at Kenzo on Saturday with a solid collection that gave feminine elements like flowers and embroidery a masculine twist.

Tortured by Stalin’s henchmen and attacked by Hitler’s forces, Aleksander Szekal almost became one of World War II’s millions of victims.

In central Alabama’s Perry County, government workers already get a day off for President’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, and Veteran’s Day. In 2009, they’ll get one more: “Barack Obama Day.”

Veteran diplomat Rupiah Banda was sworn in as the new president of Zambia Sunday following a narrow and disputed victory over a populist rival in an election forced by the death of the country’s former leader.