Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – For Franklin Borough, the fact that one of the community's own was among the six Marines raising the American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iwo Jima flag-raiser Marine Sgt. Michael Strank, who spent his childhood living in Franklin Borough, will be honored Saturday as a ...

ARLINGTON, VA. — For more than 60 years, the Marine Corps has proudly told the story of Sgt. Michael Strank and the five other warriors who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Turns out they were telling ...

Mary Pero was 12 years old when her brother died. Word of his death came printed on the page of a Western Union telegram from the War Department delivered to their home in Franklin, a steel town of ...

A rattlesnake bite in Somerset County sent a man to the hospital by helicopter Saturday afternoon.Dispatchers said the incident happened just before 3:30 p.m. n PA Game Commission meets in Harrisburg, ...

On Tuesday, a premiere showing of the Sgt. Michael Strank documentary, titled “Our Flag Still Waves,” will be held in room 150 Hawthorn on the campus of Penn State Altoona at 8 p.m. This event is free ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — For more than 60 years the Marine Corps has proudly told the story of Sgt. Michael Strank and the five other warriors who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Turns out they were telling part ...

JOHNSTOWN — Marine Corps Sgt. Michael Strank is a revered historic figure and military hero in both the United States and the Slovak Republic. He was born Mychal Strenk on Nov. 10, 1919, in the ...