Gertrude Baines, a former maid who was born before the discovery of penicillin and was the world’s oldest person, died Friday in Los Angeles. She was 115. She died in her sleep at Western Convalescent ...

Private Joe Baines joined the Army to escape a rough neighborhood. He dreamed of college and of getting his family out of Newark, N.J. But he didn't make it back from Iraq. In Iraq, the U.S. military ...