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Investigators say bad maintenance practices at a Georgia air force base missed a deteriorating propeller blade that broke off six years later as a U.S. Marine Corps transport plane cruised over Mississippi at 20,000 feet, causing the KC-130T to break into pieces and plunge into a soybean field, killing 15 Marines and a Navy corpsman. The report on the causes...

The Department of Defense identified on Saturday the seven airmen who died on March 15 when their helicopter crashed in western Iraq. The men ranged in age from 29 to 39 and hailed from Colorado, Florida and New York.

A Florida sheriff has fired a decorated deputy who was recorded taunting an autistic student at the middle school where he provided security and guidance.

A funeral procession carried U.S. Marine Sgt. Chad E. Jenson from Lindbergh Field to Sorrento Valley Tuesday.

Capt. Sean Elliott, one of the plane’s pilots, was killed when the KC-130T, used to refuel jets in mid-air and on the ground, crashed in a field last week.

Three service members with ties to Southern California were among 16 killed Monday when a military transport aircraft crashed in Mississippi. Fifteen Marines and a Navy sailor were killed Monday when the plane went down in a field.

The military transport plane that slammed into soybean fields Monday in the Mississippi Delta, killing 15 Marines and a Navy sailor, appears to have developed problems while high in the air, a Marine general said Wednesday....
“Indications are something went wrong at cruise altitude,” Brig. Gen. Bradley S. James told reporters Wednesday in Itta Bena, Mississippi. That squares with comments from...

Investigators are working to determine what caused a Marine Corps refueling plane to crash in a Mississippi soybean field Monday. The crash killed all 16 service members on board.

Investigators picked through debris across a fire-blackened soybean field Tuesday to try to determine why a U.S. military plane slammed into the ground, killing all 16 people aboard in the deadliest Marine crash anywhere in the world in more than a decade. The KC-130 air tanker was carrying members of an elite Marine unit cross-country for training in Arizona when...

The parents of a 15-year-old girl reported a man spying on their daughter and possibly taking pictures or video as she was using a public restroom at the All Seasons Park in Eastlake on Thursday.

As Air Force officials investigate allegations that inspectors were invited to view the remains of astronaut and former U.S. Sen. John Glenn at Dover Air Force Base, a military mortuary chief said that Glenn’s remains were treated with “impeccable care.”

As San Diego once again heads into its summer season, firefighters across the County are preparing for another potentially destructive wildfire season.

As San Diego once again heads into its summer season, firefighters across the County are preparing for another potentially destructive wildfire season.