In a gesture of gratitude, Scrap Mart flew the family to San Diego for their national convention to return the medal.

A Purple Heart medal found in a Georgia junkyard is returned to a family member of the World War II veteran who earned the ...

It should’ve been lost forever, crushed in a car shredder. But this World War II Purple Heart refused to be forgotten.

On Thursday, Edward Gorski Jr.’s Purple Heart medal was returned by the Illinois treasurer’s office to the World War II veteran’s grandson, Shawn.

The mystery of how a Purple Heart medal ended up in a Georgia scrapyard when the recipient's family in Michigan received it 80 years ago is a step closer to being solved. Local VFW members have ...

McMahon was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, which is given to those who were wounded or had died during service. He died in the Philippines on Jan. 29, 1945 and was buried in Manila. It is ...

This is the 14th Purple Heart medal that Frerichs has returned to a veteran or surviving family. As state treasurer, he explained his office collects unclaimed property — usually money, but also ...

A 96-year-old Korean War veteran from Minnesota has been waiting for 70 years for a Purple Heart medal. The Army keeps turning him down.

Paul John Herbert of Shelburne Falls received two years of supervised release and will serve the first year in home ...