Family of Man Killed in DC Plane Crash Files $250 Million Claim Against FAA, Army
The family of a Salem man who was killed when a U.S. Army helicopter collided with a passenger plane he was on in Washington, D.C. last month has filed a $250 million claim against the federal agencies involved. According to Robert A. Clifford, who is representing the widow and children of Casey Crafton, the family […]
Army Veteran Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Homeless Man in Downtown Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A U.S. Army veteran who served in the war in Afghanistan pleaded not guilty Wednesday to fatally shooting a homeless man with an automatic rifle in downtown Memphis. A lawyer for Karl P. Loucks, 42, entered the plea to a first-degree murder charge during a hearing in Shelby County Criminal Court. Loucks […]
Purple Heart Medal’s Owner Identified as ‘a Man’s Man’ Who Fought in WWII
In the final push to defeat Nazi Germany during World War II, Edward Gorski Jr. was trying to shield himself inside a foxhole when the 19-year-old Chicagoan was struck by enemy fire. Gorski, a broad-shouldered Army private with a rugged face, was hit with mortar shrapnel after a fellow soldier in a nearby trench lit […]
Massachusetts Cold Case: Man Arrested for Allegedly Killing Ex-Army Soldier, Mother of 2
A Mattapan, Massachusetts, man has been arrested for allegedly killing a mother of two more than 30 years ago, according to officials who said her “jealous and violent partner” set up a murder-for-hire plot. Michelle Miller, a former U.S. Army soldier, was 29 years old when she was last seen alive in Cambridge’s Central Square […]
Ex-Army Man Faked Marriage for Ill-Gotten Benefits
An ex-Army soldier was sentenced to three months in federal prison Thursday and must pay $202, 309 in restitution after conspiring with a woman to evade U.S. immigration laws, enter into a fake marriage and steal federal benefits. Andre Fulton II, 30, of Georgia, who joined the Army in 2014, was sentenced by U.S. District […]
Case Against Army Veteran Charged with Killing a Homeless Man in Memphis, Tennessee, Moves Forward
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A U.S. Army veteran who served in the war in Afghanistan pepper-sprayed a homeless man and got into a confrontation with him before fatally shooting him with an automatic rifle in Memphis, a security guard and a police investigator said Tuesday. The guard and the police sergeant testified during a preliminary hearing […]
Alabama Man Convicted of Killing Pregnant Soldier, 19, on US Army Base in Germany 23 Years Ago
An Alabama man was convicted by a federal jury Monday of the 2001 strangling and beating death of a pregnant soldier on a U.S. Army base in Germany, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Shannon Wilkerson, 43, killed 19-year-old Amanda Gonzales, a fellow Army soldier, in Gonzales’ barracks room in Fliegerhorst Kaserne, then a U.S. Army base in Hanau, Germany, the […]
A Man Who Crashed a Snowmobile into a Parked Black Hawk Helicopter Is Suing the Government for $9.5M
BOSTON — Jeff Smith was whizzing along on a snowmobile one evening a few years back when something dark appeared in front of him. He hit his brakes but he couldn’t avoid clipping the rear tail of a Black Hawk helicopter parked on the trail. The March 2019 crash almost cost Smith his life and […]
Army Veteran Identified as Man Wounded by Police After VA Clinic Shooting
WENATCHEE, Wash. — The man shot and wounded by police Sunday after authorities say he fired into an empty Veterans Affairs clinic was identified as Army veteran Troy Allen McMaster of East Wenatchee. Investigators believe McMaster rammed the Department of Veterans Affairs Elwood “Bud” Link Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in Olds Station with a pickup truck […]
Man Laid to Rest 80 Years After His Death in World War II
CHICAGO — First Lt. Edward T. McGuire, a graduate of the Mount Carmel High School class of 1939, died Aug. 1, 1943, at the age of 22 when his B-24 Liberator bomber went down near Ploiesti, Romania, during Operation Tidal Wave in World War II. While his death was presumed when he did not make […]