Posted: 6:18 AM Contractors are putting the finishing touches on a home in Onslow County before they hand over the keys to a Purple Heart combat veteran.

Updated: 9:56 PM Volunteer Alex Douglas says he understands military orders, but after so many pets are left at the shelter during deployments he says the lack of planning just gets frustrating.

Updated: 1:17 PM The Department of Defense says a 22-year-old Marine from Greenville, Miss. was killed during combat operations.

Updated: 7:19 AM The 1,700 marines of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit will begin returning to North Carolina Thursday after more than 10 months away on duty in Northern Africa and Europe.

Posted: 5:31 AM NATO defense ministers will discuss on Thursday possible changes to the alliance's strategy in Afghanistan after the U.S. and France called for speeding up the handover of combat roles to local Afghan forces.

Updated: 4:46 AM According to McClatchy newspapers, one of the marines in the video where troops appear to be urinating on Taliban corpses in Afhganistan was the unit's leader.

Posted: 9:15 PM A CDC agency is researching the effects of chemical contamination of water at the base from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Updated: 4:46 PM Smoke is visible over Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville. Officials say it is from controlled burns.

Updated: 10:10 PM An Onslow County jury has found a Marine father not guilty of child abuse after his young son was mauled by the family's pit bull.

Posted: 12:24 PM A little boy determined to defy doctors is inspiring people around him.

Updated: 7:47 PM The Navy is investigating the death of a diver participating in an amphibious training exercise in waters off Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

Posted: 5:57 AM The lineup of weapons the Pentagon has picked to fit President Barack Obama's new forward-looking defense strategy features relics of the past.

Posted: 6:55 PM Thousands of people have turned out in St. Louis for the nation's first big parade welcoming home Iraq War veterans.

Posted: 1:59 PM Gen. Raymond Odierno, the Army chief of staff, says the Pentagon will take two heavy armor brigades out of Europe in 2013 and 2014 and eliminate them.

Posted: 6:24 AM For military communities, the acronym BRAC, can mean a lot of stress and according to the Havelock News another round of it could be coming soon.

Posted: 8:39 AM The Pentagon is preparing to tighten its belt, but with an election-year battle looming in Congress, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wants to stress the positive in Thursday's press conference.

Posted: 11:29 AM A documentary film about a Camp Lejeune Marine who returns from Afghanistan wounded and struggling to rebuild his life is among the nominees for an Academy Award.

Updated: 11:27 AM People in Lenoir County reported hearing a loud noise before noon today.

Updated: 8:14 AM An American military helicopter raid into Somalia has freed two aid workers who were held hostage by Somali pirates for over 3 months, including a woman from Virginia.

Posted: 12:10 AM One couple shared the moments leading up to their anxiously awaited return of their son.

Updated: 11:48 PM Camp Lejeune held an official ribbon cutting for its new visitors' center and main gate Tuesday.

Updated: 10:27 AM Marines based in the East will be reunited with their families Tuesday afternoon after more than 7 months in the Middle East.

Posted: 5:42 AM A new Onslow County Museum is taking visitors back to the 1940s for a look at the earliest days of Camp Lejeune.

Posted: 4:37 AM The Department of Veterans Affairs says personal information for more than 2,200 veterans, including Social Security numbers, was posted on Ancestry.com after it mistakenly released the data through the Freedom of Information Act.

Posted: 11:12 AM The Defense Department says a Marine based at Camp Lejeune has been killed in Afghanistan.