PORTLAND, Ore. — Andy & Bax, a longtime Portland fixture selling camping gear and military surplus items, will soon close its doors after 78 years in business. A sign seen on the side of their ...

The Defense Department recently fired off a round of letters warning state law enforcement officials to track down every gun, helicopter and Humvee that the military had given them under a $2.6 ...

With his lone rifle rack, America’s sheriff, Andy Griffith, once stood as our iconic image of local law enforcement. Now, even in rural towns, your local police department's armory may look more like ...

Nationally, police acquired nearly $500 million in military surplus items through the program in fiscal 2011, more than double the fiscal 2010 amount of $212 million, and are on track to match that ...

As protests over police brutality lead to calls for law enforcement overhauls, a decades-old Department of Defense program faces renewed pressure from Congress to stem the flow of military equipment ...

VALLEJO, Calif. - With life increasingly disrupted, more panic buying has erupted due to the coronavirus. And in addition to disinfectants and other household goods, guns and survival gear are in ...

Pilots flying the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in Alaska are now getting cold weather gear in their ejection survival pack. Summer survival packs, which are typically installed under the ejection seat, ...

At 10:38 a.m. on Oct. 1, the first 911 call came into the Douglas County, Oregon, emergency communications center: Shots had been fired at Umpqua Community College. Within minutes, officers from the ...

New Jersey police departments received $11.8 million of surplus military equipment since 2018 — including two heavily armored vehicles — under a Pentagon program that is facing renewed scrutiny amid ...