Not many kids likely can say they've shared a karate belt rank with their grandmother. But Shaylee Richey, 10, of Richland, can. She and her grandmother, Beverley Raffety, 79, also of Richland, were ...

Clubs from Brainerd, Aitkin and Little Falls participated in a Central Minnesota Karate quarterly-rank examination at Charles Lindbergh School in Little Falls Feb. 26. Yellow Belt: Thomas Holt, Little ...

At only 11 years old, Jonah Thompson, of Dorr, has risen to the top of the Tang Soo Do Karate ranks to earn a black belt. For the last five years, Thompson has studied the art of Tang Soo Do, meeting ...

Ray Taylor has a room full of shiny martial-arts trophies, all of them won with one goal in mind - earning his black belt. Ray, 14, has been taking American karate classes at Spartanburg Martial Arts ...

YOUNGSTER Lee Schofield has joined the black belt ranks at Haxby Shotokan Karate Club. Schofield, who is only 12, passed two out of three parts of his black belt in February before successfully ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Morris Mack, who with wife Kara Mack has taught karate in Yakima since 1961, was recently promoted to the rank of judan (10th degree black belt), the highest recognized rank in ...

Melanie Venin earned a junior black belt, her father a second-degree black belt and her mother and sister a black belt. POMPTON LAKES — Here's some good advice: Don't mess with the Venin family! The ...