No warnings before teen's suicide, his parents say
By Andrew Meacham, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
TAMPA — In his short life, Lawrence Guilford won hearts with his smile and positive outlook. As a child, he welcomed conversation with adults. As he grew into a handsome, pleasant young man, those same adults plugged him into their matchmaking speculations, trying to decide which young lady would best suit him.
He grew up in Tampa, the only child of a businessman and a dance teacher. Some other things we know about Mr. Guilford:
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No warnings before teens suicide, his parents say
Friday, December 11, 2009
Florida veteran will bike 300 miles to help others recover
Spring Hill veteran will bike 300 miles to help others recover
By Beth N. Gray, Times Correspondent
In Print: Friday, December 11, 2009
SPRING HILL — Living up to the military axiom that you never leave a comrade behind, Mike Runyan will take on an arduous trek this weekend to help wounded warriors.
The 60-year-old from Spring Hill will mount his Trek 2.3 model bicycle at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa on Saturday and pedal more than 300 miles to Jacksonville over six days in the first Florida Challenge ride.
The event, which will take the riders on Saturday and Sunday through Pasco and Hernando counties, is part of a national effort, Ride 2 Recovery. The 2-year-old foundation launched in California raises money to aid rehabilitation for the military's wounded.
One of the rehabilitation efforts provides specially built bicycles for veterans who have lost a leg or the use of their legs, Runyan said.
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Spring Hill veteran will bike 300 miles to help others recover
By Beth N. Gray, Times Correspondent
In Print: Friday, December 11, 2009
SPRING HILL — Living up to the military axiom that you never leave a comrade behind, Mike Runyan will take on an arduous trek this weekend to help wounded warriors.
The 60-year-old from Spring Hill will mount his Trek 2.3 model bicycle at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa on Saturday and pedal more than 300 miles to Jacksonville over six days in the first Florida Challenge ride.
The event, which will take the riders on Saturday and Sunday through Pasco and Hernando counties, is part of a national effort, Ride 2 Recovery. The 2-year-old foundation launched in California raises money to aid rehabilitation for the military's wounded.
One of the rehabilitation efforts provides specially built bicycles for veterans who have lost a leg or the use of their legs, Runyan said.
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Spring Hill veteran will bike 300 miles to help others recover
Lejeune Marine charged in Florida shooting death
Lejeune Marine charged in Florida shooting death
December 10, 2009 8:55 PM
LINDELL KAY and ANIESA HOLMES
A Camp Lejeune Marine was charged Thursday in the November shooting death of a 34-year-old Daytona Beach man.
Montario Litron Royals, 22, was transferred from the Camp Lejeune brig Thursday and turned over to the Onslow County Sheriff's Department. He is being held in the county jail with no bond on a fugitive warrant from Florida, said Sheriff Ed Brown.
Royals and two other men are accused of shooting and stabbing 34-year-old James Tolbert outside his Baldwin Lane apartment Nov. 27 at about 1:30 p.m.
Malvin Fluker, 25, of Daytona Beach, and Shane Burns, 21, of Homerville, Ga., have also been taken into custody, according to a press release from the Daytona Beach Police Department.
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December 10, 2009 8:55 PM
LINDELL KAY and ANIESA HOLMES
A Camp Lejeune Marine was charged Thursday in the November shooting death of a 34-year-old Daytona Beach man.
Montario Litron Royals, 22, was transferred from the Camp Lejeune brig Thursday and turned over to the Onslow County Sheriff's Department. He is being held in the county jail with no bond on a fugitive warrant from Florida, said Sheriff Ed Brown.
Royals and two other men are accused of shooting and stabbing 34-year-old James Tolbert outside his Baldwin Lane apartment Nov. 27 at about 1:30 p.m.
Malvin Fluker, 25, of Daytona Beach, and Shane Burns, 21, of Homerville, Ga., have also been taken into custody, according to a press release from the Daytona Beach Police Department.
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Marine died of infection 4 months after bomb blast in Afghanistan
Waterbury Marine Dies Four Months After Bomb Blast
By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY
December 11, 2009
On Monday, in his Texas hospital room, the gravely ill Cpl. Xhacob LaTorre of Waterbury received a Purple Heart for the wounds he suffered in August from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, he died of his injuries.
The Marine leaves behind his wife, Frances, and a 1½-year-old son, Javier. A 2005 graduate of Crosby High School in Waterbury, LaTorre was in the ROTC program. He would have turned 21 Saturday.
LaTorre's legs were severely injured when an improvised, explosive device detonated in the Helmand province of Afghanistan on Aug. 10. The bomb instantly killed a fellow Marine who had been on foot patrol with LaTorre, said his aunt, Carmen LaSalle.
His legs had to be amputated, LaSalle said. LaTorre had made progress, though, and was talking and eating at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio within weeks of his injury, she said.
Then infection set in, and his condition worsened, LaSalle said. When he was conscious, he screamed in pain, she said.
LaSalle, who helped her sister raise LaTorre, flew to see him for Thanksgiving. He was in bad shape, she said, and other family members flew in to say goodbye. He died at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday.
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Waterbury Marine Dies Four Months After Bomb Blast
By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY
December 11, 2009
On Monday, in his Texas hospital room, the gravely ill Cpl. Xhacob LaTorre of Waterbury received a Purple Heart for the wounds he suffered in August from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, he died of his injuries.
The Marine leaves behind his wife, Frances, and a 1½-year-old son, Javier. A 2005 graduate of Crosby High School in Waterbury, LaTorre was in the ROTC program. He would have turned 21 Saturday.
LaTorre's legs were severely injured when an improvised, explosive device detonated in the Helmand province of Afghanistan on Aug. 10. The bomb instantly killed a fellow Marine who had been on foot patrol with LaTorre, said his aunt, Carmen LaSalle.
His legs had to be amputated, LaSalle said. LaTorre had made progress, though, and was talking and eating at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio within weeks of his injury, she said.
Then infection set in, and his condition worsened, LaSalle said. When he was conscious, he screamed in pain, she said.
LaSalle, who helped her sister raise LaTorre, flew to see him for Thanksgiving. He was in bad shape, she said, and other family members flew in to say goodbye. He died at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday.
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Waterbury Marine Dies Four Months After Bomb Blast
Former VA secretary calling termination wrong, unlawful
Veterans Affairs to see lawsuit
Former VA secretary calling termination wrong, unlawful
By Katherine Kehoe
Friday, December 11, 2009 1:08 a.m
The former Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary announced Thursday he will be taking legal action against the DVA Board, which fired him last month for suspicious activities.
In his suit, former secretary John Scocos claims his firing from the board was unlawful because of both state and federal laws that prohibit firing veterans within one year of their return from deployment.
A retired Army colonel who returned from Iraq in September, Scocos was fired in late November.
“Because the Wisconsin Board of Veterans Affairs chooses partisan politics over principles and ethics, I was unlawfully fired two days before Thanksgiving — the first Thanksgiving I would have with my family in two years,” Scocos said in a statement released Thursday.
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Former VA secretary calling termination wrong, unlawful
By Katherine Kehoe
Friday, December 11, 2009 1:08 a.m
The former Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary announced Thursday he will be taking legal action against the DVA Board, which fired him last month for suspicious activities.
In his suit, former secretary John Scocos claims his firing from the board was unlawful because of both state and federal laws that prohibit firing veterans within one year of their return from deployment.
A retired Army colonel who returned from Iraq in September, Scocos was fired in late November.
“Because the Wisconsin Board of Veterans Affairs chooses partisan politics over principles and ethics, I was unlawfully fired two days before Thanksgiving — the first Thanksgiving I would have with my family in two years,” Scocos said in a statement released Thursday.
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