MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT PARRIS ISLAND, South Carolina, June 13 -- The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news: By Lance Cpl. William Horsley, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island On Oct. 23, 1983, Cpl. Dan Kovach was manning Checkpoint 8, a small outpost near the bullet ridden American University Library building in Beirut, when he heard a loud explosion. Kovach, an infantryman with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, saw two large mushroom clouds in the sk  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, June 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia issued the following news release on June 12, 2024: Michael Donivan White pled guilty today to federal charges related to the November 2021 murder of Big Stone Gap Police Officer Michael Chandler and a wide-ranging drug conspiracy. White, 36, of South Carolina, pled guilty today to eight counts in relation to the murder of Officer Chandler. Specifically, he pled guilty to one count of causing th  more