Members of an elite female WWII unit that notably improved the morale for soldiers on the European battlefront were honored ...

Athens Academy senior Emiliana Korin earned the Congressional Award Gold Medal for her extensive service and personal ...

Ben Ferencz was just 27 with no previous trial experience when he became chief prosecutor in one of the most significant murder trials in history.

A Montford Point Marine who served in World War II was honored posthumously in Goldsboro on Saturday. Corporal Guy Parker spent his adult years settled in Goldsboro. Other WRAL Top Stories Though he ...

The 11-year-old boy who shielded his classmate during the Annunciation Catholic School mass shooting received an award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society on Wednesday for his life-saving ...

U.S. Sen. Rob Portman has signed on to award the surviving Doolittle Tokyo Raiders the Congressional Gold Medal. The Ohio Republican joins with U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who introduced the ...

GENESEO — With teary eyes shaded by a World War II veterans cap, Wallace Higgins accepted the Congressional Gold Medal on Friday for his service more than 70 years ago in the Tuskegee Airmen, the Army ...

President Donald Trump signed a bill awarding Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team, honoring the “Miracle on Ice” squad that beat the Soviet Union and won gold.