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Tragedy struck Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday, with death, injury and destruction running rampant .

No longer needed by the U.S. Coast Guard, the lighthouse is being offered to any eligible group that would use it - and pay for its upkeep - for education, recreational, cultural or historic preservation purposes.

More than 85,000 US veterans received medical treatment for sex abuse trauma in 2012, while only 4,000 applied for disability benefits.

Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image and what he stood for has already begun.

Did the idea of "Navy dolphins" confuse you? Then you should know there is an entire program dedicated to studying and training marine mammals, called the Navy Marine Mammal Program .

The Air Force says its test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had postponed in April because of tensions with North Korea, is now scheduled to happen on Tuesday.

The plane carrying nearly 90 members of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division touched down at the U.S. Army post on the Kentucky-Tennessee border Sunday evening.

Two FBI agents from an elite counterterrorism unit based in Northern Virginia were killed Friday during a training exercise in the Virginia Beach area, the FBI said Sunday.

After writing last week about the Pentagon's report on the dramatic increase in reports of sexual assault in the last two years, I went back and looked at some of the coverage of one of the most notorious sexual assault scandals in U.S. military history, which took place in 1991 at the annual gathering of the Tailhook Association, a group of active ... (more)

The raid happened in back in March. The Norwalk Reflector reports authorities found an active meth lab in the apartment of Allen Mobberly, 32.

When U.S. Marines were shown providing umbrella coverage for President Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a Rose Garden news conference the other day , the right-wing noise machine went into high gear.

SUN PHOTO BY AL HEMINGWAY Dressed in ceremonial garb, John Griffin explains the role Black Seminoles had during their conflicts with the U.S., during the 13th annual Emancipation Day celebration Saturday afternoon at the Blanchard House Museum in Punta Gorda.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Shannon Hutto will always consider Eddie a hero, regardless of the outcome of a public poll for the next American Hero Dogs.

Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud.

As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, the Massachusetts man figured he'd dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic solvents onto the ground.

The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined the president Saturday at Andrews Air Force Base.

An Army team transfers the remains of Spc. Thomas P. Murach May 7 at Dover Air Force Base, Del.

As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely's eyes filled with tears.

A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.

For most of Siebert's life, he has trained and worked as an Improvised Explosives Detection dog for the United States Marine Corps.