The U.S. government has taken action to bring justice to those who may have been exposed to toxic substances at Camp Lejeune during a span between 1953 and 1987 – and a Charleston-based firm is reportedly the first to file ...

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CAMP LEJEUNE (AP) A U.S. Marine identified as a member of a white supremacist group involved in violence during last summer’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is out of the military after being convicted at a court-martial. The Daily ...

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FORT BRAGG (AP) A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other kids on base. An Associated ...

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Opening statements are expected in the trial of a U.S. Marine who vanished from his post in Iraq a decade ago and later wound up in Lebanon.

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Kelly v. United States (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-02-0924, 29 pp.) (Louise Flanagan, J.) 7:10-cv-00172; E.D.N.C. Holding: While North Carolina courts do not appear to have ruled on whether a liability waiver signed by a parent on behalf of a minor ...

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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Centers for Disease Control to complete a new, comprehensive report on the health effects of toxic tap water at the Camp Lejeune Marine base.

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The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating the theft of a chalice valued at $10,000 from a church at Camp Lejeune.

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The Marine Corps says it will court-martial two non-commissioned officers for allegedly urinating on the bodies of Taliban fighters last year in Afghanistan and posing for unofficial photos with casualties.

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In a negligent-entrustment case that took a turn when discovery revealed new evidence, the U.S. government has agreed to a $6.675 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by families involved in a fatal car crash caused by a Camp Lejeune marine who was high on ether from the base. Plaintiffs' attorney Joseph Anderson said the case took a dramatic turn earlier this year when discovery revealed "an unexpected cache of documents" and he learned that one of the witnesses he was set to depose had evidence showing that military officials knew the marine, Pvt. Lucas Borges, was a habitual substance abuser and had questioned his ability to serve in the military.

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A lawsuit brought by a woman who was one of perhaps a half-million people exposed to cancer-causing pollutants and contaminants in drinking and bathwater at Camp Lejeune has withstood a salvo of dismissal motions filed by the government. But now a new motion is pending. The plaintiff, Laura J. Jones of Iowa, lived with her husband, a marine, at Camp Lejeune from 1980 to 1983. In 2003 Jones was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She didn't learn about problems with Camp Lejeune's water supply until 2005.

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