More than five decades after a decorated World War II veteran-turned-milkman was murdered "execution-style" on his route, testimony from his killer's ex-wife solved the cold case. Hiram "Ross" Grayam had been shot multiple times when investigators searching the area via airplane spotted his milk truck deep in the woods in Vero Beach, Florida, in April 1968, the Indian River County Sheriff's Office wrote in a Thursday news release. The Purple Heart recipient had witnessed the liberation of two...
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff says two of his deputies are hospitalized after being wounded in a shootout with a man who opened fire when the officers tried to pull him from his car. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd praised his deputies at a news conference Saturday. Judd said a man sitting in
Florida sheriff says deputies killed a gunman in shootout that wounded 2 officers
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff says two of his deputies are hospitalized after being wounded in a shootout with a man who opened fire when the officers tried to pull him from his car. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd praised his deputies at a news conference Saturday and said of the slain suspect:
"This is actually the most dangerous moment, I would argue, not just since the end of the Cold War but in many ways since the end of World War II."
Collective moments are a fascinating thing to examine. When society fixates on something, it tells us about our internal processes and what is bothering us or drawing our curiosity. This happened in the late 1990s with the explosion in popularity of World War II movies. Half a century after the defeat of the Nazis, filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, Terrance Mallick, Clint Eastwood and more began pumping out historical military projects like 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'The Thin Red Line,' 'Flags of...
BATON ROUGE - One person was killed in a shooting on Florida Street, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department.Police responded to a shooting around 7:45 a.m. at 1900 block of Florida Street and found a man dead from gunshot wounds.This is the second shooting today, as another on Choctaw Drive resulted in three people being transported earlier Sunday.No other information is available at this time.Permalink| Comments
President Joe Biden on Wednesday mischaracterized the circumstances of his uncle's death during World War II as he lambasted former President Donald Trump's comments about the military. "He got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be — there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea," Biden said during his remarks invoking his uncle Ambrose J. Finnegan. However, U.S. military records about Finnegan's death do not mention the aircraft's...
Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards devised one of the greatest dictums in American political history: "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy," to which we must now add, "or a dog I shot."
President Joe Biden appeared to suggest that cannibals ate his uncle after he was shot down during World War II, though military records say otherwise. Speaking with reporters on Wednesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden twice recalled the story of his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific theater […]
Private First Class (PFC) Noah Reeves got a well deserved hero's welcome home at the Birmingham Airport Thursday. A casket draped in the American flag carrying his remains was escorted by an honor guard into a hearse before a procession began.
The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II have been digitized and made available for free, genealogy company Ancestry announced Wednesday. The website, known as one of the largest global online resources of family history, is collaborating with the Irei Project, which