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While a statewide open burn ban was lifted earlier this week, Fayetteville city leaders want to remind residents that burning yard debris and trash has been prohibited in the city limits since 2011.

Open military burn pits, such as those used in Iraq and Afghanistan, are being linked to traumatic brain injuries in veterans, according to research from an upcoming study. The research, which has ...

RALEIGH -- Thousands of American troops say they're in poor health due to an unexpected part of their service. "I have a stomach issue now, but am I going to get cancer? Am I going to get emphysema?" ...

Marsha Four was an Army nurse working in an intensive care unit not far from the front lines of Vietnam. Four said everyone she worked with and all her patients were young people who were thrust into ...

In response to concerns over possible adverse effects of exposures to emissions from open burn pits used in Southwest Asia military operations, Congress passed PL 112-260, §201, which directed the ...

The impact of VA Secretary Collins' staffing cuts remains hazy, not unlike the downwind side of a burn pit, Dan Clare of DAV argues in this op-ed. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) In 2008, I left Balad Air ...