The fate of Harry Watson became a detective story that took 10 years to solve — a case of mistaken identity that the detailed recollections of a gravedigger and a letter from a Raleigh dentist describing the missing soldier’s gold tooth.

A Memorial Day ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium, Md., will honor three war dead whose remains recently have been identified, as well as eight service members from Maryland who died last year and early this year.

Staff Sgt. Michael Uhrin, a 21-year-old airman from Metuchen whose remains were identified nearly 80 years after his death, will finally be laid to rest in his hometown this Memorial Day.

Active-duty military and veterans are twice as likely as civilians to develop cancers associated with human papillomavirus, or HPV.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced new appointments for various state jobs Friday, including a new secretary of the California Department of Veterans Affairs.

A World War II veteran says he developed cancer because of radiation exposure while in the Navy. He beat it this year at the age of 94 with radiation therapy.

According to the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, there are more than 5.5 million spouses and children serving as a caregiver to their disabled military veteran. Betsy Eves, a fellow for the foundation, said most loved ones find themselves stepping into the role of a caregiver “out of necessity.”

The remains of Dixon Word War II Army Private Myron E. Williams will soon be laid to rest in Texas almost 80 years after his death.

A Jamaican man who volunteered for the Royal Air Force and flew bombing missions in World War II was remembered at his funeral as a dignified, gracious, quiet man with an old-school charm. Hundreds of people – mostly strangers — touched by his story packed St. Clement Danes Church to give the former flight sergeant a proper send-off.

On Friday, June 2, millions of Americans are due a total of $25 billion worth of Social Security payments. And more than anything else, that may prove a decisive element in forcing an end to the partisan standoff over raising the federal debt limit.