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  1. AF publishes list of sex assault convictions

    A newly published Air Force document includes all sexual assault convictions from 2010 through August of this year. It marks the first time the service has attempted to release such a list as it faces criticism for its handling of sex assault cases.

    • Sep. 13, 2013
  2. Andrews NCO charged with child pornography

    An Air Force officer has been indicted on charges of child pornography.

    • Sep. 12, 2013
  3. Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin, left, was warned about the negative impact of his decision to overturn the high-profile sex assault conviction of Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, newly released documents show. Air Force

    Lawmakers lambaste 'old boy's network' in email exchange

    Newly released emails show the lengths to which a top Air Force officer went to help a fellow fighter pilot get a new assignment and advance in his career after overturning the pilot's sex assault conviction.

    • Sep. 10, 2013
  4. Emails accuse former Aviano vice wing commander of protecting Wilkerson

    The former commander of the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base, Italy, accused his vice commander of trying to protect the base inspector general, who was a friend and fellow pilot, by sitting on an allegation of sex assault against the IG, newly releas

    • Sep. 10, 2013
  5. Robins airman charged in death of woman, unborn child

    Police on Saturday arrested a Robins Air Force Base, Ga., senior airman in the Aug. 29 shooting death of a woman and her unborn child.

    • Sep. 9, 2013
  6. U.S. forces cracking down on human trafficking in Korea

    The U.S. military is cracking down on troops who support businesses connected to human trafficking, blocking airmen from spending money at so-called '

    • Sep. 6, 2013
  7. Commander bans airmen from supporting Korea 'juicy bars'

    Airmen assigned to 7th Air Force in South Korea will now face judicial punishment for giving money to any bar or business for 'companionship' as part of a Defense Department crackdown on establishments that support human trafficking.

    • Sep. 6, 2013
  8. In this Sept. 19, 2011 photo, Amanda Kaur walks from the Pennington County Jail to the Pennington County Courthouse in Rapid City, S.D. A judge has refused to reduce the 65-year prison sentence of Kaur, who shot her husband twice in the head three years ago. Ryan Soderlin / AP

    No reduced sentence for wife who shot Ellsworth airman

    A judge has refused to reduce the 65-year prison sentence of a New Underwood woman who shot her husband twice in the head three years ago.

    • Sep. 6, 2013
  9. Police surround man for hours at Grissom AFB

    Police say a man spotted with a small suitcase and kneeling in prayer at northern Indiana's Grissom Air Force Reserve Base was taken into custody after being surrounded for about six hours.

    • Sep. 6, 2013
  10. Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Patrick Dugan poses for a portrait at the justice center in Philadelphia on Aug. 21. Matt Rourke / AP

    Special courts for veterans expanding across U.S.

    Former guardsman Paul Piscitelli is in Philadelphia Municipal Court to answer to drug and theft charges. Elijah Peters, who served in the Army in Afghanistan and Iraq, was arrested twice for assault.

    • Sep. 2, 2013
  11. This courtroom sketch shows Army Maj. Nidal Hasan during his court-martial. The court-martial panel on Aug. 28 sentenced him to death. Brigitte Woosley/The Associated Press

    The death penalty is rare in the military

    A military court-martial panel on Aug. 28 sentenced to death the Army major responsible for the deadliest attack ever on a U.S. military installation.

    • Sep. 1, 2013
  12. Hasan joins 5 murderers on military's only death row

    The last man executed at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was John Bennett, hanged in 1961 for raping and choking an 11-year-old Austrian girl in 1954.

    • Aug. 30, 2013
  13. Hasan arrives at Fort Leavenworth prison

    Officials at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, say Nidal Hasan has arrived to begin his incarceration on the prison's death row.

    • Aug. 30, 2013
  14. Plea hearing set for contractor in Iraq thefts

    A civilian contractor accused of stealing two electric generators from a U.S. military base in Iraq is scheduled to plead guilty in federal court in Richmond.

    • Aug. 29, 2013
  15. A military jury has sentenced Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others. Bell County Sheriff's Department / AP file

    Maj. Nidal Hasan sentenced to death for Fort Hood shooting

    A military jury on Wednesday sentenced Maj.

    • Aug. 28, 2013
  16. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, who led the Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit, is seen leaving the Arlington County General District Court, on July 18, in Arlington, Va. Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

    Officer's trial on groping charge set for Nov. 12

    A jury trial has been scheduled for Nov. 12 for the former head of the Air Force sexual assault prevention and response office, who is accused of drunkenly groping a woman.

    • Aug. 27, 2013
  17. Woman who tried sneaking onto MacDill found incompetent

    A woman accused of sneaking onto MacDill Air Force Base four times has been declared mentally incompetent.

    • Aug. 26, 2013
  18. Teen pleads not guilty in strangulation of airman's wife

    An 18-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to strangling a teenager found by a Long Island footbridge.

    • Aug. 26, 2013
  19. Maj. Nidal Hasan on Friday was convicted of murder for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others. He is elgibile for the death penalty. AP

    For Hasan, is execution punishment?

    U.S. soldier Nidal Hasan and many of his victims in the Fort Hood shooting seem to want the same thing — his death.

    • Aug. 24, 2013
  20. Bradley Manning is the first transgender military inmate to ask for hormone treatments, officials say, a request that could lead to a legal showdown over how — and if — the soldier convicted in the WikiLeaks case will be allowed to live as a female behind bars. Army via AP

    Bradley Manning says he wants to live as a woman

    Three years after Bradley Manning rocked the Pentagon by leaking a mountain of secrets, the soldier created a whole new set of potential complications for the military Thursday when he announced he intends to live as a woman named Chelsea and undergo hormone treatment.

    • Aug. 22, 2013
  21. FBI: Ex-Air Force officer violated lobbying ban

    An Air Force captain who oversaw a company's contracts to provide boots for Afghan soldiers switched sides after leaving government, taking a well-paying job representing the vendor in front of his former colleagues, according to a criminal complaint.

    • Aug. 22, 2013
  22. Erotic novel causes stir at Gitmo war court

    A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 terror attack said Wednesday that guards gave his client a contraband copy of the erotic novel 'Fifty Shades of Grey' apparently as a joke or an attempt to discredit him.

    • Aug. 22, 2013
  23. Fort Leavenworth, seen in 2009, is a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, sentenced Aug. 21 to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, could be headed for hard time at Leavenworth, home to the American military's most famous prison. Charlie Riedel / AP

    Manning could serve sentence at famous Leavenworth

    After being sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking classified documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, Pfc. Bradley Manning could be headed for hard time at Fort Leavenworth, home to the American military's most famous prison.

    • Aug. 21, 2013
  24. Ex-SAPRO chief indicted on assault and battery charge

    Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski was removed from his job after allegedly assaulting a woman in May. His arrest angered lawmakers.

    • Aug. 20, 2013
  25. Senior Airman Andrew Witt is escorted to the courtroom in 2005. Sue Sapp / Air Force

    Overturned death penalty brings families back to 'where they started' in Schliepsiek case

    The nightmares began soon after the brutal killings of his daughter and son-in-law at Robins Air Force Base, Ga. For 15 months, they persisted: Images of Jamie Schliepsiek fighting for her life while her husband, Senior Airman Andy Schliepsiek, lay helpless from a stab wound that severed his spinal cord.

    • Aug. 20, 2013

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