Registration for prekindergarten at 80 Defense Department schools began Wednesday, marking the launch of the first full-day preschool program in most U.S. military communities worldwide.
Aviano Air Base schools initiated a lockdown Tuesday morning at the direction of security forces personnel while they search for two unidentified people on the installation.
The driver involved in last year’s Defense Department school bus rollover near Ramstein Air Base was convicted by a German court of intentionally endangering road traffic and leaving the accident scene.
Schools at Aviano Air Base in Italy are closed until Monday amid a severe weather alert that warned of thunderstorms, hail and high winds as a storm from the Atlantic swept into the region.
This story has been updated. More than a dozen military bases stretching from Fort Drum in New York to Fort Hood in Texas were closed Tuesday as large swaths of the country were gripped by freezing temperatures and dangerous weather conditions. In southern portions of the United States, many residents were dealing with freezing temperatures and power and water outages. Dyess Air Force Base in west Texas was without water Tuesday because of a power outage at Abilene s water treatment facility. Most of the city was expected to get water back by the end of the day, but a boil water notice will continue, city officials said.