Military Justice

— Over two weeks, the Pentagon has suffered a string of embarrassments in its effort to show progress in curbing sexual assault within the ranks. A Defense Department anonymous survey estimated a 35 percent increase in sexual assault and related...

All he wanted was some American-made boots. An Air Force noncommissioned officer who complained to Congress, military investigators and the media that he was issued Chinese-made boots for an Afghanistan deployment now says he is being retaliated against...

Arthur Henshey Moss, 82, of Wayne, who practiced law in Philadelphia for 40 years, died Thursday, May 9, of complications from pneumonia at his home. Before retiring in 2000, Mr. Moss spent four decades with the firm of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker &...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered top military chiefs on Friday to redouble their effort to address the problem of sexual assault, saying the frequency and perceived tolerance of the crime was eroding the military's ability...

A federal appeals court on Friday agreed to speed up the case of the coal ship that's been held up in Hampton Roads for a month. The timetable, however, may not be fast enough to prevent the owner of the ship from running out of money, according to...

A pretrial hearing in Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair's sexual misconduct case ended Thursday following arguments on whether computers were unconstitutionally seized from his home on Fort Bragg. The judge did not rule on that issue or most of the others...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.  A military judge, Army Col. David Conn, had found...

An Army judge on Thursday handed down the toughest sentence he could give to a soldier who murdered five fellow service members at a Baghdad combat stress clinic. Sgt. John Russell will serve life without parole for shooting to death two care providers,...

It looks like the coal ship stuck in Hampton Roads since mid-April isn't going anywhere soon. Depending on how a flurry of court filings late last week and this week play out, the Antonis G. Pappadakis could be in Hampton Roads for months. The...

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee must give a job applicant veteran's preference even though the Navy discharged him for bad conduct after a court martial, the state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. State law says military veterans get preference...

Decision day for whether or not the U.S. Supreme Court will review the case of imprisoned Edmond soldier Michael Behenna is nearing. For the Supreme Court justices to grant a writ of certiorari from the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces would be the...

A federal jury can determine whether a Defense contractor is responsible for the electrocution death of a Shaler soldier without second-guessing the military's choice of where to house troops in Iraq, a lawyer for the soldier's parents argued Tuesday....