US Navy Now Allows Women to Wear Ponytails, Lock Hairstyles
The Navy says it will now allow servicewomen to sport ponytails and other hairstyles, reversing a policy that long forbade females from letting their hair down.
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San Francisco OKs Project on Site of Toxic Cleanup Fraud
Despite recent findings of possible widespread fraud in the $1 billion cleanup of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco city officials on Tuesday approved moving forward with plans to build more than 10,000 homes on the potentially contaminated 400-acre site.
Read moreThird Circuit Hears Dispute Over Pollution at Navy Bases
A Pennsylvania family argued before the Third Circuit on Thursday morning that they are entitled to medical monitoring after their drinking water was contaminated by the U.S. Navy.
Read moreTrump Pardons Navy Man Who Took Illegal Submarine Photos
The White House announced Friday that President Donald Trump has pardoned a Navy sailor who took photos of classified areas inside a submarine and served a year in federal prison.
Read morePTSD Vets Say Navy Dropped Ball on Boards Meant to Help Them
A former Marine suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder accused the Naval Discharge Review Board in a federal class action Friday of shirking its duty to ensure that disciplinary decisions made in the heat of battle do not result in life sentences for young veterans.
Read moreLong Islanders Issue Call to Arms on ‘Radioactive Plume’
Long Island is on the brink of “environmental catastrophe,” residents claim in a federal complaint, accusing New York and U.S. authorities of letting radioactive waste spread in the groundwater.
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Former Navy Cmdr. Troy Amundson became the 20th official Tuesday to plead guilty to bribery conspiracy charges involving defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis and his Singapore-based company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia.
Read moreJudge: Sailors’ Fukushima Radiation Case Doesn’t Belong in US
A federal judge on Friday dismissed without prejudice the latest class action filed by hundreds of U.S. sailors exposed to radiation in the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear disaster, finding a San Diego courtroom isn’t the right place for the case.
Read moreNavy Commander Sentenced in ‘Fat Leonard’ Bribery Scandal
A federal judge said a Navy commander had betrayed the Navy, himself and his country before sentencing him to 18 months in prison on Friday for his part in the “Fat Leonard” Navy bribery scandal.
Read moreUS Sailors Face Grim Diagnoses After Fukushima Mission
U.S. Armed Forces service members speak out about facing cancer, brain tumors, birth defects in their children and other rare health problems since being exposed to radiation during a humanitarian mission to Fukushima, Japan, after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Read moreNavy Surgeon General Outraged by Infant Abuse Photos
The Navy surgeon general on Wednesday called images posted on social media over the weekend depicting a Naval hospital employee abusing newborns “highly offensive.”
Read moreMost Claims Dismissed in DC Navy Yard Murders
Civil charges against companies connected to the lone gunman who killed 12 people and wounded eight at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard in 2013 have been dismissed by a federal judge, except for a claim that the companies may have erred by hiring the murderer.
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Navy Dismisses 7th Fleet Commander After Warship Accidents
The U.S. Navy dismissed the commander of the Asia-based 7th Fleet on Wednesday after a series of warship accidents raised questions about its operations in the Pacific.
Read moreNavy Families Sue Fukushima Operators for Wrongful Death
Families of five Navy service members who died after responding to the Fukushima nuclear meltdown have sued Tokyo Electric Power Co., blaming the deaths on radiation illnesses contracted from the March 2011 disaster.
Read moreNavy Corruption Scandal
A federal judge sentenced two Singaporeans to 70 and 46 months in federal prison, respectively, for the Glenn Defense Marine Asia contracting scandal that cost the Navy more than $34 million and has produced 17 guilty pleas so far.
Read moreSuspect in Deadly Times Square Crash Pleads Not Guilty
A U.S. Navy veteran pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and attempted murder after he was accused of intentionally mowing down pedestrians on a Times Square sidewalk, killing a woman and injuring 22 other people.
Read moreTravel Feud Cancels 9/11, Cole Case Hearings at Guantanamo
A U.S. military judge on Friday put pretrial hearings in the Sept. 11 terrorism case at Guantanamo Bay on an indefinite hold amid a dispute with officials over the way he travels to the remote courtroom.
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Admiral Gets 18 Months in Sprawling Navy Bribery Scandal
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the only active-duty U.S. Navy admiral ever convicted of a federal crime to 18 months in prison for his role in a decades-long bribery and fraud scheme.
Read moreACLU Digs for Records on Fatal US Raid in Yemen
Seeking answers about January’s botched Navy SEAL raid in Yemen, the American Civil Liberties Union claims in a federal complaint Monday that several government agencies are stonewalling its access to public records.
Read moreDiscovery Woes Stall Trial of Navy Bribery Scandal
Nine former high-ranking Navy officials must wait to face trial in a massive contract-bribery case, as a federal court judge on Friday delayed the case for six months as attorneys parse through thousands of discovery documents in the complex case.
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