TYNDALL AFB, Florida, May 7 -- The U.S. Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center issued the following news: By Emily Mifsud, AFIMSC Public Affairs The Air Force Civil Engineer Center's expeditionary modernization team joined U.S. Air Forces in Europe and the French armed forces in Exercise Razorback, an interoperability airfield damage repair training, at Vouziers Airfield and Grostenquin Airfield, France, March 20 to April 3. The multiphase operational airbase recovery exercise emph  more

JACKSONVILLE, Florida, May 7 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Jacksonville District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, announces the availability of a proposed Finding of No Significant Impact, draft Environmental Assessment (EA) and associated appendices for the periodic beach and dune renourishment along 7,000 feet of shoreline extending southward from Fort Pierce Inlet's south jetty between Florida Department of Environmental Protec  more

EGLIN AFB, Florida, May 7 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: By Samuel King Jr. Dressed in the bright whites, deep blues and dense blacks of their service uniforms, Airmen, Marines, Sailors and Soldiers returned this year to honor and remember their fallen explosive ordnance disposal brethren May 4. The annual memorial ceremony, in its 55th year, took place at the Kauffman EOD Training Complex on Eglin. The schoolhouse's commandant, Navy Capt. Steven Beall, welcomed guests and   more

EGLIN AFB, Florida, May 6 -- The U.S. Air Force's Eglin Air Force Base issued the following news: Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force David Flosi attended the 55th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Memorial ceremony May 4, 2024. Afterward he met with more than 100 EOD Airmen to talk and answer questions. The CMSAF spoke about the EOD career field, leadership, mental health, the new warrant officer program and more. * * * Original text here: https://www.eglin.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/37  more

TAMPA, Florida, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued the following news release: Baptist Health System Inc. (Baptist Health), located in Florida, has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing its subsidiaries to offer discounts to patients to induce them to purchase or refer Baptist Health services reimbursed by federal health care programs. In connection with the settlement, the Uni  more

MIAMI, Florida, May 7 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following remarks by Secretary Carlos Del Toro on May 6, 2024 at the Fleet Week Miami kick off news conference: * * * Good morning, everyone! Thank you, Ms. Webb, for that kind introduction, for all your work with PortMiami, and for hosting us here for Fleet Week. I want to especially thank the Honorable Daniella Levine Cava, Mayor of Miami-Dade County--and our host for the week--for opening the city of Miami to our Sailors, Marines, and Depa  more

FORT MYERS, Florida, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued the following news release on May 6, 2024: United States District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Marvin Harris, Jr., aka "Mesh," (25, Fort Myers) to 45 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and murder-for-hire. Harris, Jr.'s co-defendant, Latrel Jackson, aka "Kobe," (26, Chicago, Illinois), is scheduled to be sentenced on June 24, 2024, and faces a man  more