Army Veteran Sentenced to 55 Years for Road Rage Shooting Death of Muslim Man

Dustin Passarelli

INDIANAPOLIS — A suburban Indianapolis Army veteran was sentenced to 55 years in prison Wednesday for the road rage shooting death of a Muslim man after witnesses said he hurled ethnic and religious insults at the victim. Dustin Passarelli of Plainfield was convicted in May of murder and a felony firearm enhancement in the February […]

After 57-Year Delay, a Vietnam War Veteran Receives US Army Air Medal

Maryland Del. Justin Ready pins the Air Medal on the shirt of George Keeney.

George Thomas Keeney, 76, a veteran of the Vietnam War, was due to receive his Air Medal from the U.S. Army on Nov. 6, 1966 — but it never came. On Monday — 57 years later — Keeney, now bedridden, was finally presented the award in the living room of his New Windsor home, where […]

Army Veteran Who Stormed Capitol Gets More Than 8 Years in Prison

Trial of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and four others charged with seditious conspiracy.

WASHINGTON — An Army veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a military-style formation with fellow members of the Oath Keepers was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in prison, a day after the far-right extremist group’s founder received an 18-year prison term in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack. Jessica Watkins, of Woodstock, Ohio, […]

Body of US Special Forces Veteran Turned Over by Russian Mercenary Group

Retired Staff Sgt. Nick Maimer and retired Lt. Col. Perry Blackburn.

With a big assist from Ukrainian comrades, the body of an Idaho Special Forces veteran was en route to the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv — American soil — on Friday in time for Memorial Day. Nick Maimer was killed in the embattled city of Bakhmut on May 15 or 16. After traveling to Europe, he […]