CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina, May 19 -- The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news: By Lance Cpl. Loriann Dauscher, Marine Corps Installations East Ground Safety for Marines is a two-week course that provides occupational safety and health training to military and Department of Defense civilian personnel assigned to duties in ground safety. Completing the course qualifies military personnel for the secondary military occupational specialty of 8012, Ground Safety Specialist, for M  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, May 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Michael F. Easley Jr., issued the following news release on May 18, 2023: A fentanyl dealer was sentenced today to 292 months in federal prison for distributing a mixture and substance containing cyclopropyl fentanyl that killed a 20-year-old. Shamel Nesbitt, 32, was convicted by a jury on the charge on August 31, 2022. Nesbitt was living in Smithfield at the time the crime was committed. "Fentanyl  more

NEW BERN, North Carolina, May 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Michael F. Easley Jr., issued the following news release on May 18, 2023: A Fayetteville, North Carolina man who now has ten felony convictions was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for drug conspiracy charges involving heroin and fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute heroin, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense. On October 4, 2022, Kennard Fisher   more