The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members, in what's been a growing campaign to counter enlistment shortfalls.

Eight people were shot — two fatally — early Friday in downtown Orlando, prompting questions about police security in an area that has been plagued with violence in recent years, News4JAX’s sister station WKMG reported.

Eight people were shot early Friday in downtown Orlando, according to police.

Police in Florida say two people were killed and seven others wounded when a gunman opened fire during a Halloween street celebration that drew thousands of costumed revelers to downtown Orlando.

The Marine Corps in a ceremony at the commandant’s headquarters has presented their highest noncombat medal to the parents of Cpl. Spencer Collart, who died last year after his V-22 Osprey crashed in Australia.

The Pentagon says a controversial policy that allows service members to be reimbursed for travel if they or a family member have to go out of state for reproductive health care — including abortions — was only used 12 times from June to December of last year.

A judge says a federal lawsuit against the NFL’s disability plan can proceed to trial.

Defense officials say Gen. Eric Smith is taking steps to return to full duty as commandant of the Marine Corps, about four months after being sidelined due to a heart attack.

The Marine Corps says Gen. Eric Smith, the commandant, has had open heart surgery and is expected to return to full duty as the service's leader.

Republican senators have angrily challenged Sen. Tommy Tuberville on his blockade of almost 400 military officers.

The Senate has confirmed three top military leaders, filling the posts after monthslong delays and as a Republican senator is still holding up hundreds of other nominations and promotions for senior officers.

The crash site for a stealth fighter jet that went missing during the weekend after its pilot ejected has been located in rural South Carolina after the military asked the public for help finding an aircraft built to elude detection.

Two Florida police officers were shot and critically injured during a traffic stop, and the suspect was fatally shot by SWAT team members several hours later.

Two Florida police officers were shot and critically injured during a traffic stop, and the suspect was fatally shot by SWAT team members several hours later.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is warning that troop readiness and retention is at risk as the Army’s chief recently stepped down, leaving the military’s two ground combat forces without Senate-confirmed leaders for the first time in history.

The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet.

Authorities say a Florida police officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop in downtown Orlando.

President Joe Biden has nominated a highly decorated Marine officer who's been involved in the transformation of the force to be the next commandant of the Marine Corps.

Ten retired players are accusing the NFL of lying and flagrantly violating federal law in denying disability benefits.

Mike Westhoff has always been blunt and brutally honest.

An officer was discharged from a hospital after being hit by a truck while chasing a suspect on the Westside, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said Monday.

A man was jailed early Friday morning after running from a police officer who was then hit by a truck on the Westside, according to a public information officer for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

Officials say police officers shot a man who had been acting erratically as he ran toward a vehicle entering an Orlando apartment complex.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Eric Smith is a former member of the Florida House of Representatives and a former President of the Jacksonville City Council. In 1975, during a dark time in Florida politics, Smith was part of a historic effort to impeach three Florida Supreme Court justices. He was chairman of the select committee to investigate organized crime in the legislature and what he looked into became the subject of a book: “A Most Disorderly Court: Scandal and Reform in the Florida Judiciary.”On This Week in Jacksonville, Smith looks back on his time as a young legislator and how it compared to the current state of American politics.

A federal judge says the IRS can't keep withholding coronavirus relief payments from incarcerated people, potentially clearing the way for at least 80,000 checks totaling more than $100 million to be sent to people behind bars across the United States. The legislation passed in March that authorized the payments of up to $1,200 per person during the pandemic doesn't specifically exclude jail or prison inmates. Still, that's exactly the claim that the IRS made a couple of weeks after the coronavirus rescue package passed. Prison officials in Maryland and California are working to notify all lock-up facilities. Some inmates may be reluctant to apply even if they hear about the ruling in time, Dermody said.

FreeImages.com/Razief Adlie(CNN) - A Michigan man was sentenced to 60 days in jail -- to be served on weekends -- for poisoning his wife's coffee with the active drug found in Benadryl. Brian Kozlowski's estranged wife "felt tired, nauseous and was experiencing blurred vision" on July 2018 after drinking coffee that Kozlowski had prepared for her, the Macomb County Prosecutor's press release states. Videos later revealed Kozlowski had been pouring diphenhydramine, the active drug in Benadryl, "into his wife's morning coffee, intentionally poisoning her," the release states. The last coffee he made was analyzed and found to contain 127 milliliters of diphenhydramine, the release said. The couple is now divorced, according to the Macomb County Court site.