The Antioch Police Department’s armored rescue vehicle — originally produced to help troops survive explosives set off in Iraq and Afghanistan — will stay on the force until an alternative can be ...

Police departments throughout Ohio are stockpiling millions of dollars worth of military gear — from army boots to mini-tanks — through a Defense Department program that provides law enforcement ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Textbooks, football and Greek life. Keggers, marching bands and all-nighters. A militarized campus police department armed with M-14 rifles and full riot gear? Increasingly, at Indiana ...

Through a federally funded program, police departments across the United States can get a wide variety of military surplus equipment. But recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and other American cities ...

Jamey Noel, the former Clark County sheriff, along with his wife Misty, is facing multiple felony charges amidst an ongoing investigation into the misappropriation of $7 million worth of military ...

Now is the time to cut the police, including cost share, but keep any free Army surplus equipment. There might be a few distant, ultraviolet city police forces with the urban values, loyalty and ...

EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - Enormous efforts were made, and are still being made, fighting woodland fires in East Texas, and that requires the use of a lot of resources. The cost of those efforts means a ...

Capt. Omar Peña said the equipment is not military surplus gear. Rather, it is gear defined as military equipment in Assembly Bill 481.

Buffalo is chock full of heralded treasures. Some are widely known, while others are lying in wait. I paid a visit to a relatively unknown international treasure recently, which is in the process of ...

Many of my first nights spent outdoors without my parents were courtesy of the UK's Combined Cadet Force, the British equivalent of JROTC. On long weekends hiking up and down the mountains of ...

From rugged gear to unexpected finds, a trip to the military surplus store is never ordinary. What treasures and surprises were waiting on the shelves this time?