FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: Fort Knox, Ky. Scott Robison, an Army Reserve civilian and budget analyst for the 84th Training Command recently obtained the Certified Defense Financial Manager certification to advance his career and better support the Soldiers and Civilians of the 84th TC. The CDFM was originally developed by the American Society of Military Comptrollers (now the Society of Defense Financial Man  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Nov. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina issued the following news release: U.S. Attorney Dena J. King announced today that Samantha Marie Vono, 34, of Hickory, N.C., was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by five years under court supervision for trafficking methamphetamine. Vono was classified as a Career Offender as a result of multiple prior drug trafficking convictions for possessing methamphetamine with the inte  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Nov. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina issued the following news release: Roger Trent Melchor, 56, of Indian Trail, N.C., pleaded guilty yesterday to wire fraud for fraudulently obtaining $32,000 in COVID-19 pandemic relief loans, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. According to plea documents and the court hearing, between July 2020 to May 2021, Melchor used false informatio  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Nov. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the following news release: A Pennsylvania man, Jerome Fiers, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking operation involving large quantities of fentanyl and cocaine. Fiers, who operated as a middleman in a drug distribution network from Philadelphia to Raleigh, coordinated transactions that involved nearly 10 kilograms of cocaine and 323.8 grams of f  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: Baseball Hall of Famer Hoyt Wilhelm pitched for 10 Major League Baseball teams from 1952 to 1972 and was on the World Series winning New York Giants team in 1954. He was born in Huntersville, North Carolina, in 1922 and in 1942, he was signed to play by the Mooresville Moors baseball team of the North Carolina State League. But his baseball career was put on hold when he entered military service with the Army a  more