COLES COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — As the nation mourns the deadliest U.S. air crash since 2009, a Coles County town remembers another deadly aviation incident — and a local hero. Wednesday night, an ...

There they floated. Scared. Traumatized. Six people had just survived the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into a bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., in January 1982. They hung on to the ...

MATTOON - The community lost a citizen and gained a hero on a very cold day in January 1982, said Principal Les Edwards. Edwards and many others paid tribute Saturday to that hero, Arland D. Williams, ...

MATTOON — The story of Arland Williams brought a Japanese television crew to Mattoon for filming a documentary piece about heroes across the world. Williams, a Mattoon native, died Jan. 13, 1982, ...

LANSING, Mich. — As Citadel alumnus Benjamin Franklin Webster was inducted into The Citadel's Arland D. Williams Jr. Society in 2000, his thoughts drifted from his own accomplishments to the deeds of ...