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SALT LAKE CITY ---  The mystery behind a package of seven medals that a World War II veteran received in the mail has been solved. A federal official says 93-year-old Tom Harrison of Salt Lake City requested the medals in April as part of a larger application for military records...

“I thought I was going to catch the ball or go over the railing,” said Michael Kacer of the foul ball he caught at Yankee Stadium Friday. The 29-year old vet had lost his left arm in Afghanistan, so he had nothing to brace himself with when he used his baseball cap as a glove and reached over the railing to snag a ball off of the bat of Curtis Granderson.