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Cocopah Police Chief James Spurgeon has made his way down the yellow brick road.

"Non-lethal weapons give warfighters crucial escalation-of-force options between shouting and shooting," said Kelley Hughes, strategic communications officer for the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va.

My childhood friend of 31 years visited my home on base, in Quantico, Va., a few months after I gave birth to my first baby.

BY APRIL AMADON april.amadon@lockportjournal.com A familiar face is back on the force at the Lockport Police Department after taking some time away to attend a prestigious national program.

A human skull was found Thursday morning off Job Corps Road in Jefferson County where a new elementary school is expected to open next year, according to police and school officials.

Brandon Smith had no idea what was coming when he went to work on January 24, 2009.

Monday-Tuesday, crews will be patching potholes on the Interstate 95 ramps between the Prince William County line and the Hanover County line during overnight hours.

Two BRAC Community Information Fairs are planned for next month. The dates are July 14 and July 29 and there could be as many as 200 to 300 employees at each.

Chester and Muriel Rodgers are celebrating 62 years of marriage today, June 21, 2009.

The FBI National Academy Associates Hawaii Chapter has selected two young men from Oahu to attend the FBI NAA Youth Leadership Program at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va.

Amid a veil of artillery smoke, the Marines crept slowly through a wheat field, their green uniforms drab against the red poppies.

Richard C. Powers has been named special agent in charge of the FBI's Houston Division.

Performance Food Centers, a premier provider of all-natural healthy foods to juice bars and cafes, announces the opening of a new juice bar at the United States Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia.

Smoke wafted over a soggy field at Inglewood Farm in Bealeton on Tuesday as Marines cautiously made their way through the thigh-high wheat, their 1903 Springfield rifles gleaming in the sun that had broken through the clouds.

OCEAN CITY a ' On June 12, Captain Jay Prettyman, a fifteen year veteran of the Ocean City Police Department, graduated from the 237th Session of the F.B.I. National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, along with two hundred and fifty law enforcement officers.

The U.S. soldier accused of shooting and killing five fellow servicemembers at a clinic on Camp Liberty, Iraq, last month is being held at a Marine Corps detention facility in Virginia while undergoing "evaluations" at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Army officials confirmed Thursday.

The first of eight new student quarters for the Corps' newly commissioned officers is slated for completion this August as the next phase of construction at The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., is expected to ramp into full gear.

For the past two years, the Selected Marine Corps Reserve has fallen short of its end-strength goal.

Gov. Tim Kaine is promoting a new Amtrak route that will run between Richmond and Washington seven days a week beginning in December.

Amtrak will begin a daily commuter rail service between D.C. and Richmond and Lynchburg, Va., this fall.