Steve Walsh
Military and Veterans ReporterAs a military and veterans reporter, Steve Walsh delivers stories and features for TV, radio and the web. Before coming to KPBS, Steve worked as a journalist in Northwest Indiana and Chicago. He hosted a daily public affairs show on Lakeshore Public Radio and was an original host and producer for the storytelling project Vocalo.org at WBEZ in Chicago. He has been a reporter on Back At Base, a collaboration between NPR and seven public radio stations that looks at veterans and the military. He is a graduate of Indiana State University. He spent a large portion of his career as a print reporter for the Times of Northwest Indiana and the Post-Tribune in Gary, Indiana. At the Post-Tribune, he was embedded in Iraq twice. He was also an investigative reporter and covered the Indiana Statehouse during the term of three governors.
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U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York state law that had restricted who could obtain a permit to conceal carry. -
The Navy’s Fat Leonard bribery scandal has taken center stage in San Diego for nearly a decade.
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Details revealed in the bribery trial of five naval officers exposes an underbelly of how the Navy conducted business in the Pacific.
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During closing arguments, prosecutors said the five accused naval officers on trial took care of the man dubbed "Fat Leonard."
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Her son was killed in Afghanistan last year. This is her first Memorial Day as a Gold Star mother.
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Part of a long tradition of Hollywood working the with the film industry to produce a hit for both sides.
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Democrat Terra Lawson-Remer upset Republican incumbent Kristin Gaspar.
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As of early afternoon Thursday, "all known fires" on the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego were out.
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On Thursday, there were no embraces on the Navy pier typical of such homecomings. Instead, sailors disembarked one by one and walked to waiting vehicles to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
