Hundreds of buildings across the Marines’ sprawling Camp Lejeune sport shiny, new metal roofs — a feature that officials at the swampy, coastal North Carolina post said is key to ensuring they survive the devastating winds and waters future hurricanes could bring.

The staff dedicated to investigating disease outbreaks for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received a reminder this week of the pandemic's persistence: confirmed covid cases at their own conference.

Wolf recovery has been a flashpoint for environmentalists, ranchers and politicians on all sides of the issue. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has taken a personal interest in wolf recovery in the state, most recently overruling the Fish and Wildlife Commission to require that the department initiate a formal rule-making process to guide lethal removals of wolves when they kill livestock.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that he supported changing the role of military commanders in the prosecution of service members on sexual-assault charges, signaling his backing for a bipartisan proposal that would instead assign independent prosecutors to handle sexual assault allegations in the military.

The now 4th class midshipmen Saturday recorded the second-slowest Herndon Climb in Naval Academy history at 3 hours, 41 minutes exactly.

Although nationwide 2020 data won’t be available until later this year, health researchers predict at least a 27 percent jump in fatal overdoses compared to 2019, which would be the largest single-year percentage increase in the past two decades.

Parents of children under 12, who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, will have to continue to make individual assessments about their risk, said Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration — even as officials cheer the steady decline in COVID cases in the United States and the return to relative normalcy for many vaccinated adults.

The Defense POW /MIA Accounting Agency is considering taking the unprecedented step of placing their remains back in the sunken Pearl Harbor battleship that accounted for the greatest loss of life on Dec. 7, 1941.

Navy Fireman 3rd Class Welborn Lee Ashby, a casualty of the Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attack, will finally be laid to rest among his family in his hometown of Centertown in Ohio County on Memorial Day.

This month the Consulate General of France in Atlanta awarded World War II veteran E.D. Witherspoon France’s highest order of merit, the Legion of Honor.