Courts-Martial

The third recent court-martial involving an Anchorage-based service member began Wednesday on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson for a soldier accused of several charges, including abusive sexual contact. Army Chief Warrant Officer Guillermo Castillo sat...

The Army has scheduled a Wednesday court-martial for a Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson soldier accused of sexual abuse, Anchorage’s third military sex-crimes case to be publicly announced this month. A Monday statement from U.S. Army Alaska...

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...

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,...

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...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon estimated that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted in unreported incidents last year — 35% more than in 2010 — a severe trend that senior officials warned could threaten recruiting and...

The state's new crime lab in Anchorage is working to catch up on a backlog of cases awaiting DNA testing, with hundreds of cases at various stages of analysis. Orin Dym, the facility's forensic lab manager, says there are about 130 cases waiting to go...

The recent study estimating that there may have been 26,000 cases of sexual assault in the military last year stirred a lot of tough talk from the Pentagon and the White House over the past 24 hours. But the question is whether that outrage will translate...

Sgt. Dominic Morales still hears an "evil chuckle" in his nightmares. He remembers it as the frightening laugh of Sgt. John Russell just before he shot an unarmed soldier in the face inside a Baghdad combat stress clinic four years ago. The victim...

The Pentagon estimated Tuesday that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted last year, 36 percent more than a year earlier, in a trend so severe that senior officials warned it could threaten recruiting and retention of military personnel....

An Anchorage-based Marine Corps recruiter convicted in a court-martial Friday of sexually assaulting a friend’s girlfriend on New Year’s Eve 2011 may face local charges in the crime, according to the Anchorage Police Department. In a Monday...

* 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 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers voiced...