The city of Mebane has less than two days of drinking water at its current usage. Under the city's Water Shortage Response ...

After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Japanese forces invaded the Philippines with little opposition. They took over most of the South China Sea islands, except for one called ...

In Mebane, a voluntary evacuation order has been issued due to the possibility of Lake Michael Dam failure. The order is for ...

Several of the town’s low-lying areas flooded from the remants of Tropical Storm Chantal, and falling trees blocked multiple roads.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Wednesday that U.S. Army Pvt. Erwin H. Schopp, a Plymouth native who died as ...

When Douglas MacArthur left the islands in 1942, Jonathan Wainwright and his forces remained in Bataan and Corregidor, to face the advancing Japanese.

Corregidor lies 26 miles west of Manila on the island of Luzon, the most populated of the Philippine islands. Corregidor's strategic purpose was clear – to defend the entrance to Manila Bay and ...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández are reintroducing the Defenders of Bataan, Corregidor and Attu Congressional Gold Medal Act. The New Mexico lawmakers want to honor ...

Several members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation plan to renew a push to confer a collective Congressional Gold Medal on veterans who defended Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines ...