| 12 People My County Has Died In Iraq and Afghanistan. I Wish The War Would End. | | A woman who lived in Mount Holly, the next town over frome where I live, died this month while serving in Iraq.I just wish we hadn't have gone into Iraq and would have finished off the Taliban on the Afghanistan/Pakistan boarder.Years after President Bush declared "Mission Accomplished", people close to home are still being killed.Pvt. Janelle F. King of Merced, Calif., died Aug. 14 while serving in Baghdad with the Army’s 115th Combat Support Hospital out of Fort Polk, La., the U.S. Department of Defense announced in a press release.King was a 2003 graduate of Rancocas Valley Regional High School. School officials said she participated in the school’s ROTC program.The Merced Sun-Star in California reported that King joined the Army in May 2007 and was assigned to Fort Polk in January.King is 12th person with county ties to die overseas in Iraq or Afghanistan and the second casualty this summer.Willingboro native Dwayne Kelley died in June while serving his third tour of duty in Iraq. Kelley, who was a major in the Army Reserves and a decorated New Jersey State Police trooper, was killed along with three other American troops in the bombing of a... | |
| | Married a third time no charm | | This woman Vermont was cited on a charge of bigamy for having three husbands at the same time. LOL!> Vermont State police trooper Callie Field said Warren married a third time two months after being charged with bigamy in 2007. In that case, both Warren and her second husband were charged with bigamy because the man also was already married to someone else, police said.> Warren apparently married one man, then moved out, and married another without getting divorced, Field said. He said prescription drug abuse may be a factor in the case.I wonder why would not she just divorce her other husbands and go through this trouble for nothing?Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_fe_st/odd_three_husbands;_ylt=AuBwKS_OOjqzjroDjuVuV0TtiBIF the second casualty this summer.Willingboro native Dwayne Kelley died in June while serving his third tour of duty in Iraq. Kelley, who was a major in the Army Reserves and a decorated New Jersey State Police trooper, was killed along with three other American troops in the bombing of a Baghdad district council building.Dwayne Kelley's funeral was held about a mile away from my home... | |
| | Stuffed Monkey Leads Cops to Drug Arrest | | This was reported by cbs news I thought it was worht sharingFORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas State Police trooper suspected monkey business when he spotted a large stuffed animal perched atop the dashboard of a pickup truck on the interstate.A trooper driving down Interstate 40 near Forrest City on Monday spotted a truck with much of its windshield blocked by a large, stuffed monkey, authorities said. When the trooper pulled over the driver, he could smell what he suspected to be marijuana and he searched the vehicle, police said.Police said the trooper found more than 2,100 hydrocodone pills, 70 Xanax pills and 85 Soma pills.The driver, Tonya Rachelle Garner, 35, and passenger, Dennis Ray Garner, 34, both of Willis, Texas, were each charged with several counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Tonya Garner also faces a charge of driving with an obstructed view.The pair is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in St. Francis County District Court. | |
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