Beef Jerky NewsWOOD RIVER – one of the city’s finest will be hanging up his gear for more than one year to embark on a journey to Afghanistan to serve his country. Sgt. Chris Ayers, 25, a paid-on-call firefighter, left for Texas Friday with soldiers from his U.S. Army Reserve Unit – the 736 Engineering Detachment, 372 [...]
No one knows the daunting ordeal that awaits Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, who lost all four limbs to an IED in Afghanistan earlier this month, better than Marine Cpl. Todd Nicely. With that in mind, Nicely, who lost his limbs during his second tour in Afghanistan in 2010, reached out to relatives of Sgt. [...]
An explosion at a U.S. Army base in Afghanistan hit close to home for one Solano family Sunday after it destroyed the barracks their 22-year-old son is living in while deployed. Now, in an effort to help their son, Spc. Kyle Compton, and the nearly 60 other soldiers living in the barracks who lost everything [...]
York, PA – With one week until the primary, the seven Republicans and two Democrats vying to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Todd Platts, R-York County, debated on an auditorium stage Tuesday evening. At the start of the debate, one of the moderators from WSBA-910 AM told the nine major party candidates that he wanted them [...]
Prosecutors have decided not to charge a British soldier with the murder of an Afghan man. Duane Knott, a member of the Territorial Army, came under investigation after shooting dead a man who had been digging near a military base in Afghanistan. Knott said he believed the man was laying explosives intended to kill British [...]
First in a two-part series on the Natick Soldier Systems Center. By Jennifer Myers jmyers@lowellsun.com NATICK — Tossed from an airplane, dragged through the mud and hurled from a Humvee. it must be able to withstand at least 80-degree temperatures for two years or 100 degrees for six months. It is not a U.S. Army [...]
AMC has had an impressive track record at the Emmys in recent years. "Mad Men" is the four-time reigning best Drama Series champ. "Breaking Bad" has won three lead-acting trophies for star Bryan Cranston. and last year "the Killing" earned six nominations. will the network's latest drama, the gritty western "Hell on Wheels," follow suit? [...]
Topic: Headline NewsTrenton-based guardsmen step foot on U.S. soil after year in AfghanistanPublished Online Apr 12, 2012 – 08:20 AM by Jennifer Archdekin They are back
A British soldier has died in hospital in the UK from injuries suffered in an explosion in Afghanistan more than two months ago. The serviceman from the Queen’s Royal Hussars (Queen’s Own and Royal Irish) died with family at his bedside in the Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham, the Ministry of Defence said. He had been [...]
A FIRE razed 34 houses in Sitio Bagong Buhay in Barangay Don Andres Soriano, Toledo City yesterday morning. The flames started in an unoccupied house that reportedly belongs to Rey Algono, who is now living in Cebu City, said Senior Insp. Randy Mendaros, the Toledo City fire marshal. CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama replaced a [...]
