National News

Sep 5, 2012

By Capt. Brian Villiard, MCIOC Public Affairs, Marine Corps Information Operation Center MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. Four Marines from the Marine Corps Information Operations Center returned home Sept. 6 after a six-month deployment to Afghanistan. Information Operations planners, Maj.…

Sep 5, 2012

FORT WORTH, TXRyan Walker Grant, 34, of Kennedale, Texas, has plead guilty to one count of murder-for-hire. He faces a maximum statutory sentence of 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release. Sentencing…

Sep 5, 2012

TULSA, OKLA. The National Response Team (NRT) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), along with ATF special agents from the Dallas Field Division were requested by the Tulsa Fire Department to join in the investigation of…

Sep 3, 2012

Albuquerque, NM - On September 4, 2012 the United States Marshal Service in New Mexico arrested Janis Deanna Casaus. Casaus was a Federal fugitive wanted after a federal grand jury indicted her on charges of being a felon in possession…

Aug 30, 2012

by Capt. Martha L. Petersante 376th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs TRANSIT CENTER AT MANAS, Kyrgyztan (AFNS) -- When the 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron crew stepped into their large tanker aircraft for a recent mission and departed the Transit…

Jul 31, 2012

A Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a large crack cocaine conspiracy. Lonnie Goodrich, also known as "Daniel Watkins" and "Verdell Goodrich," 58, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge…

Jul 2, 2012

by Lt. Col. Robert Carver North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AFNS) -- Four Airmen died and two others were seriously injured when a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 Hercules crashed July 1 while fighting a woodland…

May 24, 2012

The Justice Department will monitor primary elections on May 29, 2012, in Fort Bend, Harris and Jefferson Counties in Texas, to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting rights statutes. The Voting Rights Act…