Military Justice

(Repeats for wider subscribers) * Air Force leaders say they were appalled by case * Head of anti-sex assault office arrested for sexual assault * Military sex assault reports rose nearly 200 to 3,374 in 2012 By David Alexander WASHINGTON, May 7...

* Estimated number of sexual crimes jumped 38 percent to 26,000 * Defense chief expresses outrage over weekend groping incident * Obama urges military to 'step up our game' over the issue (Adds Pentagon release of sexual assault report, Hagel and Obama...

Again with Guantanamo. Whenever this president can't answer a direct question about some failure of American security, or at least can't answer it satisfactorily, he goes into his riff about the need to ... close the brig at Guantanamo. This shtick...

JERUSALEM - An Israeli investigation into the worst civilian tragedy of last November’s Gaza Strip offensive – an attack that killed 10 members of a single family and two neighbors – concluded that soldiers bombed the home by mistake and...

Two senior enlisted leaders with an elite Navy dive unit could face charges of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of two sailors at Aberdeen Proving Ground in February, and others could be charged, the Navy said Wednesday. The chief warrant officer...

— At the College of William and Mary, a small group of law school students has tackled a very large problem. They help military veterans applying for benefits to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, taking on the most difficult and complex...

The first female soldier to flee to Canada to avoid the Iraq War was sentenced by a military judge Monday to 10 months confinement and a bad conduct discharge. Pfc. Kimberly Rivera, with the Fort Carson's 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division,...

A military appeals court Monday overturned the attempted-suicide conviction of a former Marine from Oceanside. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled that the military did not prove that the suicide attempt of Pvt. Lazzaric Caldwell...

Dick Scruggs awaits what he calls "the gun lap" --his final stint in federal prison. Reviled by many as the kingpin of Mississippi's most notorious legal scandal six years ago, he says he's found a new life from the darkness of shame and drug abuse....

Decades ago, Technical Sgt. Placido Salazar said an overt act of racism against him almost kept his Bronze Star with Valor and the Purple Heart from being placed on his lapel. The story of how the Edcouch-born, La Villa-raised, retired Air Force...

One of the consequences of abandoning a standard by which right and wrong can be judged is our increasing inability to mete out punishment that fits the crime. In fact, too often we weigh extenuating circumstances rather than guilty actions. In the...

SAN DIEGO — A military judge Thursday sentenced a female Marine convicted of attempted adultery and lying to investigators to a letter of reprimand and the loss of $3,000 in pay. Lt. Col. Leon Francis could have sentenced her to a year in the brig...