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Wisconsin's "Cheese Lady" says she's marrying a retired Navy commander enamored by her efforts to sculpt an aircraft carrier out of cheddar.

In what may well be a first, a Catholic archbishop worshipped with U.S. troops at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo then turned up across the minefield separating the base from Cuba a day later to offer a Mass for Cuban worshipers in Guantanamo province.

Fireworks lit the night sky above New York with a kaleidoscope of colors shooting 1,000 feet into the air on an Independence Day that began with the Statue of Liberty's crown opening to the public for the first time since Sept.

The Navy said today there is no indication the shooting death of a sailor standing guard at Camp Pendleton was "terrorist-related" or a hate crime.

But the desert heat proved an enemy in its own right, with several troops falling victim Saturday to temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

A Camp Pendleton-based sailor found dead in a guard shack at the North County military base was shot multiple times, and someone apparently tried to cover up the slaying by setting a fire, authorities confirmed today.

A former Severna Park resident and insurance agent has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for perpetrating a $535 million insurance fraud scheme.

Military leaders from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps expect the Defense Department's new unified Cyber Command to rationalize military cybersecurity efforts.

NASA announced this week that 33-year-old Navy Lt. Commander Gregory Reid Wiseman was selected from among 3,500 applicants for the 2009 astronaut class.

The four "Ticknor Kids" are now grown up and have spread out across the county, but they came together recently in Wichita Falls to meet a man they have always considered a hero.

U.S. Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest American military operation here since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001.

A "person of interest" is being held in connection with the death of a 29-year-old sailor.

The Coast Guard Cutter Sea Dog was commissioned at a ceremony aboard Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.

'Our next governor will be the Commander-in-Chief of the Tennessee National Guard, and no one has been more supportive or better understands the issues important to veterans, their families and the National Guard than Zach Wamp,' said Major General Dan Wood, Vietnam Veteran and former Tennessee Adjutant General.

Police divers have been pulled from a treacherous stretch of the upper Hudson River where a U.S. Navy sailor disappeared while swimming and is presumed to have drowned.

Two days after Oshkosh Corp. scored a billion-dollar defense contract, one of its subsidiaries has landed its own $10 million military contract.

NATO's new supreme commander says the situation in Afghanistan is "very challenging," but that the Taliban and other insurgents can be defeated.

The body of a 29-year-old sailor was found in a Camp Pendleton guard shack Tuesday, and a "person of interest" was taken into custody in connection with the suspected homicide, Navy officials said yesterday.

The Navy has expanded the "occasion for wear" policy for the Navy Working Uniform, which has been around for six months.

NAS Jacksonville held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday to officially open the Navy's newest helicopter hangar.