Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters will host the department’s monthly award ceremony Thursday morning to congratulate several of its members for their outstanding work.

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters will host the department’s monthly award ceremony Thursday morning to congratulate several of its members for their outstanding work.

The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II have received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones nearly eight decades after the soldiers died in a plane crash in the final days of the conflict.

A defense lawyer lashed out at a star witness in a trial related to a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Wounded heroes of the U.S. Armed Forces were recognized Friday evening by Jacksonville’s Military Affairs and Veterans Department and the Military Order of the Purple Heart Chapter 524.

A World War II Marine with a Purple Heart turned 102 years old.

An associate sorting donations at a Goodwill in Tuscon, Arizona, came across a Purple Heart medal in a box of housewares. (CNN) - An associate sorting donations at a Goodwill in Tuscon, Arizona, came across a Purple Heart medal in a box of housewares. He was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously. The Purple Heart is given to US service members who are wounded or killed in combat. In 2016, another Purple Heart was accidentally donated to a Goodwill in Arizona and with the help of social media it was reunited with the service member's family in Missouri.