Fort Campbell

A fatal helicopter crash at Fort Campbell Wednesday night left one service member dead and another injured.

The ACLU is representing six families — including two with children attending elementary school in Fort Campbell — who accuse the Department of Defense of violating their First Amendment rights by removing books from their school libraries.

A massive relief and cleanup effort is ongoing in East Tennessee following Hurricane Helene, and is now being bolstered by 500 soldiers and 15 helicopter crews from the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell.

The Department of the Army announced late last week that units from the 101st Airborne Division housed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, are scheduled to deploy to the Middle East.

Kentucky and Tennessee lawmakers joined U.S. Army officers at Fort Campbell on Tuesday as they opened the first in a series of renovated barracks originally built more than 40 years ago at the military base.

Police are asking for public assistance and following leads in the killing of a 23-year-old Army soldier who was found dead in a home near Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Recently unsealed court documents show that an Army soldier accused of selling national defense information has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a wide range on charges, including bribery of a public official. Sgt. Korbein Schultz was arrested at Fort Campbell Thursday shortly after the indictment was released.

The remains of Chief Warrant Officer 2 Shane Barnes, of Hopkinsville — and two other special operations soldiers who died when their Blackhawk helicopter crashed on Nov. 10 — have been recovered from the Mediterranean Sea, U.S. military officials and the Barnes family said.

Most years on the anniversary of the 1985 Gander, Newfoundland, crash, Lora Hobbs drives from Kingsport, Tennessee, to Hopkinsville to stand for her brother's memory.

Five soldiers stationed at the Ft. Campbell military base died after what was described as an inflight emergency. The U.S. Department of Defense said the crash was not a result of hostile fire.