Ron Kranz pulled an old sheet of paper out of his desk drawer Friday. It was a note he wrote in 1979, and it listed two career goals: to become the No. 2 man at a bank within the next three years ...

No movie is perfectly historically accurate, but Ron Howard’s masterful Apollo 13 comes surprisingly close, especially Ed Harris’s Oscar-nominated performance as Gene Kranz, then NASA’s ...

Ron Kranz was a little late for his interview with Jim Moore. Actually, he was about a week late. Kranz was applying for a job at First State Bank and through a miscommunication thought he was ...

OCONTO — Ronald Eugene Kranz, 41, of Oconto died Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, near Oconto.

One night Ron, who Kranz often called "Eddie Ryan" based on a character from the book "The Last Catholic in America," came home and saw that Kranz crashed on a bunk bed in the basement.

We turned to someone who should be able to give us the straight scoop: Apollo 13 flight director Gene Kranz, now retired in Texas. (For those who don't know, Kranz was the well-dressed character ...

Kranz never declared, ... Director Ron Howard’s film starring Ed Harris as Kranz and Tom Hanks as mission commander Jim Lovell was based on Lovell’s 1994 autobiography, ...

First State Bank & Trust Company in Fremont, NE, is battling a typical scenario of the Plains states: a small-town environment with an aging population and a dwindling pool of potential customers. The ...