SACRAMENTO, Calif. A federal judge Friday -- issued a new indictment-- dismissing charges against the general. Two years ago -- General Vang Pao and ten others were charged with plotting to overthrow ...

MADISON, Wis. — The decision to name a new elementary school after a Hmong military leader is winning praise from Hmong but criticism by some who question his past, particularly his ties with the CIA.

It took place just hours after federal prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against 12 defendants accused of plotting to overthrow the Laotian government in 2007. General Vang Pao himself at one ...

FRESNO, Calif. — Vang Pao, a revered former general in the Royal Army of Laos who led thousands of Hmong guerrillas in a CIA-backed secret army during the Vietnam War, has died. He was 81. After ...

After immigrating to the United States once the communists seized power in Laos in 1975, Vang Pao was venerated as a leader and a father figure by the large Hmong refugee populations who resettled in ...

<p>FRESNO &mdash; Vang Pao, a fabled military hero and beloved father figure among the international Hmong refugee community, will be honored with a massive funeral "fit for a king" in central ...