GOLDEN, Miss. (AP) — A northeast Mississippi factory that makes military garments warns it may lay some workers off if it can’t get another contract.

Mississippi Department of Employment Security records show Golden Manufacturing has warned 80 employees they could be laid off Jan. 4. ...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning several repairs projects for Illinois River dams that could interrupt barge traffic for much of summer 2020.

The six projects announced by the Corps of Engineers extend from the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet to the ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. defense secretary plans to take part in a ceremony in Wyoming marking the beginning of a process to return three disputed church bells to the Philippines.

The Defense Department says Defense Secretary James Mattis plans to travel Wednesday to F.E. Warren Air ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The nation’s newly dedicated veterans’ museum is offering a panel discussion to mark Veterans Day weekend.

The National Veterans Memorial and Museum says Sunday’s event will feature five veterans with different perspectives on military service.

Panelists include ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — When Lawrence resident Sherry Gill joined the U.S. Army in 1976, she said she was willing to kill if she needed to.

But that’s not how the higher command originally saw her, or any woman, contributing to the armed forces when she was placed in the Women’s Army Corps. ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One wears a uniform, carries a weapon, answers to a supreme commander and is obsessed with completing the mission.

The other served in the military.

A bee and a veteran share a lot in common, which is at the heart of Heroes to Hives, a Michigan State ...

RICHARDSVILLE, Va. (AP) — A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter landed in field at a farm in Culpeper County as a precaution.

The Free Lance-Star reports

YALE, Okla. (AP) — Famed jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker was born not far from Stillwater, in Yale.

He lived a hard life, one beset with drugs and music, and died much too young, at age 57.

Now the people in the small town where his life began in 1929 are trying to reclaim his ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville’s Meharry Medical College will test out a technology developed by the U.S. Army to quickly identify disease-causing pathogens in clinical samples.

Representatives from both institutions signed a cooperative research and development agreement at a Thursday ...

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — About 100 members of a U.S. Army training brigade scheduled to leave Afghanistan next month will take the unusual step of returning in February to help the next unit of advisers coming in, U.S. military officials told The Associated Press.

The advisers’ return is ...

FORT LEE, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Army Women’s Museum in Virginia is set to reopen after a $3 million expansion and renovation.

A grand reopening ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 2. A remembrance garden will be rededicated the same day.

The project more than doubled the exhibit space, from ...

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado plant destroying obsolete U.S. Army chemical weapons has taken a step toward resuming full operations.

Officials said Monday the Pueblo Chemical Depot restarted one of the final steps in the process, using bacteria to treat liquid hazardous waste.

The ...

NATICK, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say the man who died in a car crash in Massachusetts last week was a soldier originally from Chicago who worked at an area military facility.

Army officials say Pvt. 1st Class Roman Centeno Jr. died at the hospital Oct. 10 after the car he was in crashed on ...

FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) — A U.S. Army armored brigade from Fort Carson, Colorado, will deploy to Kuwait next year.

The Army announced Thursday that the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team will replace a brigade from the Mississippi Army National Guard next spring as part of the regular ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. Army reservist accused of running a sex trafficking enterprise in North Carolina has been convicted by a federal jury.

The Department of Justice said in a news release Friday that 29-year-old Xaver M. Boston of Charlotte was found guilty of six counts of sex ...

ALTON, Ill. (AP) — A Madison County associate circuit judge has been chosen to attend the U.S. Army War College .

Judge Sarah Smith is one of three Illinois Army National Guard Officers selected to attend. She will graduate in 2020.

Smith ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Police in Colorado say they have arrested a man in the death of a U.S. Army captain.

Colorado Springs Police on Friday announced their arrest of 27-year-old Gilberto Chavez, Jr. on suspicion of first-degree murder. Police said he was already being held for an ...

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A U.S. Army Reserve unit based in Logan in northern Utah is deploying to Kuwait.

The Herald Journal reports the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A U.S. Army veteran and Rhode Island resident is helping other veterans in need by selling unique bracelets based on his time in the military.

Keith Cochran, who has served four tours, now has a passion of creating handmade bracelets. WJAR-TV

WASHINGTON (AP) — It will take time to overcome the recruiting challenges that caused the U.S. Army to miss its enlistment goal this year, but plans to beef up recruiting and other changes will enable the service to get the recruits it needs in 2019, top Army leaders said Monday.

Gen. Mark ...

OHIOPYLE, Pa. (AP) — Enjoying life: it’s just one of the things they went to war to preserve.

On Friday, a group of veterans came together to seek adventure and savor the day as a unit by hitting the rapids of the Youghiogheny River at Ohiopyle State Park.

One of those veterans, Gail ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has suspended a permit the Mountain Valley Pipeline needs to cross Virginia waterways.

The Corps’ Norfolk district sent a letter Friday to the company developing the pipeline, saying it was putting the permit on hold because of ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to drain an Omaha lake in order to kill off two invasive species living in the body of water, according to a recently released environmental assessment.

The federal agency warned in its proposal that zebra mussel and common carp ...

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — The U.S. Army is again shipping liquid hazardous waste from a chemical weapons destruction plant in Colorado for disposal in Texas.

The Pueblo Chemical Depot in southern Colorado began loading tanker trucks on Tuesday. They were bound for an incinerator in Port Arthur, ...

Sentencing is scheduled Monday for a soldier who pleaded guilty to making bombs that released chlorine gas in a forested training area near a U.S. Army base in Louisiana.

Twenty-five-year-old Ryan Keith Taylor, of New Llano, could get life in prison and a $250,000 fine on the single count ...

CAMP SHELBY, Miss. (AP) — Army National Guard Reserve soldiers from throughout Louisiana braved record-high temperatures in July and donned combat gear and battled in the woods as they took part in simulated military exercises as part of the eXportable Combat Training Capability program, known ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Police in Colorado Springs are investigating the weekend shooting death of a U.S. Army captain stationed at Fort Carson.

The body of 28-year-old Capt. Daniel Chamberlain Lehman of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was found early Saturday near an intersection in Colorado ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A U.S. Army accident report suggests overconfidence was a factor when Vermont soldiers were hit by an avalanche during a training exercise.

The Burlington Free Press

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police say a former Louisiana State Police cadet is accused of sending lewd photographs of a former U.S. Army worker in a blackmail attempt.

News outlets report 26-year-old Jimmy Kassis was booked Friday on nonconsensual disclosure of a private image.

While ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — An Atlanta man convicted of sabotaging a computer program housed on servers at an Army base in North Carolina has been sentenced to two years federal prison.

Citing a U.S. Attorney’s Office release, WRAL-TV

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson says he “strongly objects” to a Mississippi flood control project on the Pearl River and is urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reject it.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a Texas woman to 17 years in prison for helping a U.S. Army sergeant with whom she had an affair kill his soldier wife in Maryland.

The Baltimore Sun

HONOLULU (AP) — An Army investigation into a fatal helicopter crash found the pilots became disoriented during nighttime training off Hawaii last year. All five soldiers on board were killed in the Aug. 15, 2017 crash.

The pilots experienced “spatial disorientation,” which is when a pilot ...

BERLIN (AP) — The U.S. Army Europe says it’s expanding its troop presence by adding 1,500 solders to its forces in Germany.

The military said Friday that the new unit activations are scheduled to begin this year and that the troops and their families should all be in place in southern ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A shipbuilding company with a $1 billion contract with the U.S. Army is choosing between Portland and Seattle to set up a production line for new landing vessels.

The Oregonian/OregonLive

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Charges have been dropped against a man accused of killing a U.S. Army soldier in Omaha because the state’s key witness has backed out of testifying.

Larry Goynes, 27, was released from Douglas County Jail on Tuesday after the County Attorney’s Office dismissed a ...