Matt White is the Military Editor for Coffee or Die. He was a Pararescueman in the Air Force and the Alaska Air National Guard for eight years, and has over a decade of experience in daily and magazine journalism. He also teaches journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Know a story about any aspect of the US military that Coffee Or Die readers need to know? Email him.
Prosecutors called more than a dozen witnesses in the second week of Derek Chauvin’s trial over George Floyd’s in-custody death last May. A line of high-ranking police officers and medical experts argued that it was Chauvin’s use of excessive force ...
As a surge in street violence and a record-breaking numbers of killings continue in Portland, Oregon, the Portland City Council voted Wednesday to approve a sweeping list of public-safety and police reforms. The measure does not restore any of the ...
Danielle Bove’s inspiration to become a firefighter arrived at the worst possible time. On a night five years ago, Bove and her brother found their father on the floor of his home in Delray Beach, Florida, surrounded by blood after a recurring ...
Rescue 53 rides again. When firefighters at Dallas Fire-Rescue Station 53 checked their vehicle bay at some point Monday afternoon, they discovered one of their ambulances — a rig known as Rescue 53 — was missing. Again. Jason Evans, DFR ...
A Navy hospital corpsman shot two men and then was killed at Fort Detrick in Maryland, about an hour north of Washington Tuesday morning. Both men are reported to be in critical condition at Baltimore-area hospitals. Officials with the Navy and ...
A captain with a volunteer fire department in West Virginia died while responding to a callout Sunday. Charles “Chuck” Miller, 62, had been a member of the Albright Volunteer Fire Department for 29 years, the department’s chief Owen Evans ...
A suspect was in custody and two US Capitol Police officers were taken to the hospital with injuries after a car tried to approach the Capitol complex and was stopped by a barricade. The incident occurred at the entrance on the Capitol's north side ...
The Los Angeles Police Department released a dramatic and graphic 20-minute video centered around a March shootout that left one officer shot and a 36-year-old man dead. LAPD officer body cameras captured the rescue and a suspect being hit by ...
Nashville Swift Water rescue teams pulled at least 200 people — and 40 trapped dogs — to safety during a weekend of historic flooding. Despite an all-out response from the region’s EMS and fire departments, five died in the region’s worst rains in ...
A member of a US Marshal’s fugitive task force was shot Wednesday in Canton, Ohio, by a man that officers feared was trying to commit “suicide-by-cop." “The most important thing I can tell you today is that our officer was shot today and he’s ...
COVID-19 hit Detroit first. Hard. Starting March 24, 2020 – one year ago today – officials in the city reported in quick succession the deaths of three law enforcement workers. All died from COVID-19, the first three officially acknowledged fatal ...
Two big names in Alaskan backcountry lore crossed paths deep in the state’s wilderness in early March, though under trying circumstances. After one of the state’s most beloved athletes, Iditarod musher Aliy Zirkle, suffered a race-ending crash about ...
Police defending the US Capitol on Jan. 6 were speared with an electric “cattle prod,” gouged with nail-barbed clubs, and had their gas masks ripped from their heads. All those violent acts are captured in newly released videos of the attack, footage ...
Highly trained mountain rescue paramedics from around southern Idaho leaped into trucks, cars, and even a helicopter to retrieve a couple — and their two dogs — from the cab of a pickup truck dangling from a highway bridge over a mountain canyon ...
When Anthony Quinn Warner detonated a homemade truck bomb in the center of Nashville on Christmas morning, it was an act of suicide but not an act of terrorism, the FBI said Monday. Instead, FBI investigators concluded that “life stressors” drove ...
