Patrick Air Force Base News

I can't wait to hear our state and U.S. representatives explain some of their votes on taxes and spending on the campaign trail next year.

The lead investigator in the drowning death of 2-year-old Bryson Ross said his mother's involvement with online social media did not cause her son's death.

A child's jumbled train tracks and a toppled plastic dinosaur lie on the floor by the Ross family's Christmas tree, left behind by 2-year-old Bryson before he drowned in the family's swimming pool Monday evening.

The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting a helicopter search today after a flare was spotted in the ocean off Satellite Beach on Tuesday night.

A woman who cleaning out her garage Saturday came across and old artillery shell, prompting authorities to evacuate nearby houses and close the roadway in from of her home.

Senior Airman Robert "Keith" Flick hobbled on crutches to the front of a theater full of airmen to receive a Purple Heart medal Tuesday.

Young airmen from Patrick Air Force Base stood in formation Monday to pay tribute to 10 Pearl Harbor survivors.

James Mitchell left the hospital to help defend Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack 68 years ago, only to end up back in the hospital after it was all over.

Overnight showers dumped rain across the Space Coast, leaving behind wet roads and a string of minor accidents.

Five days after Iraq attacked Kuwait in 1990, John Kutz flew to Saudi Arabia to set up a tactical communications network that linked coalition forces through U.S. military satellites, a capability key to winning the first Persian Gulf War.

Forgive me if there is a touch of opinion scattered through this week's military notes column.

Military chaplain and FLORIDA TODAY columnist Norris Burkes spoke Saturday night about the unsavory work Iraq war veterans have had to do: Escorting their friends' coffins back home.

Each weekend, a fast-growing, high-tech Brevard County church televises religious services that are viewed by enough worshippers to populate Indialantic, Melbourne Beach and Patrick Air Force Base.

Patrick Air Force Base would receive $8.4 million for a new small-arms firing range if Con gress approves a military ap propriations bill as expected by the end of the year.

FLORIDA TODAY columnist and military chaplain Norris Burkes will headline "A Patriotic Evening" tonight as part of Veterans Week.

Alumni Weekend brought to the University approximately 200 alumni for all of the events that were organized on campus.

A massive C1-30 military transport plane could be seen circling above the Mining City Tuesday, but once on the ground, the 44-year-old plane came was taxied to Butte Aviation where it was quickly refueled.

Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 9:32 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 9:32 p.m. ORLANDO Lisa Nowak, the former astronaut who drove 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando to mount a bizarre attack on a romantic rival, pleaded guilty Tuesday to reduced charges and was sentenced to a year on probation.

About a dozen people -- mostly middle-aged and older men -- sit around the U-shaped bar inside the cavernous VFW Post 8191 in Melbourne, surrounded by Halloween decorations as they eat lunch and drink beer on a Wednesday afternoon.

Recruits ready for basic training are depicted in photos on a bulletin board inside the Army's recruitment office in Rockledge.