From helping veterans with benefit paperwork to advocating on their behalf in Congress, local American Legion officials say the organization works to support those who have served their country. But ...

OXFORD — For nearly 100 years, the American Legion organization has sponsored a baseball program for high school-age boys. There was no equivalent for girls' softball over the next 90 years until the ...

A handful of veterans and their families comprised American Legion Newport Harbor Post 291 when it started in April 1924. The fledgling group first met in a building located in a parking lot members ...

Major John Griffith envisioned a nation made better, healthier and stronger — more powerful and patriotic — and forged by youthful competition that preached good citizenship. To this day, his legacy ...