House Fired Displaced Fort Hood Family of Six

Fort Hood: Fire in post housing area displaces family of six
KWTX 10 News
Jessica Thompson
April 9, 2016

FORT HOOD, Texas (KWTX) A duplex fire Saturday in a Fort Hood housing area displaced a family of six.

The fire started at around 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the carport of a duplex on Santiago Colon Drive in the Kouma Village Housing Development off of Clear Creek Road.

The flames spread to the adjacent unit of the duplex.

The fire destroyed a motorcycle, some mementos, and military gear, the resident said.
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Florida Marine's Dad Find Note on Car "I hope he dies"

Note to military father: 'F*** you and your son, I hope he dies!'
Father finds note on car
Click Orlando.com
By Jennifer Ortega - Reporter , Shannon McLellan - Social Media Producer
April 08, 2016

DELTONA, Fla. - A military father told Volusia County police that he was in tears after finding a hateful note on his car.

The Deltona man has a sticker on his car that reads "My son is a Marine." When he came out of Walmart after shopping on Friday he found a note that read: "F*** you and your son I hope he dies," according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office Facebook page.

Lewis Alexander said the sticker has been on his car for two years and nobody had previously disapproved of its message.

"They spoke their mind, my son defends those rights," Alexander said. "My son is probably going to sit there and say, 'Let it go dad.' We're very proud of our son, me and my wife both. He's worked very hard in his life to be where he's at."

Lewis said he was in and out of the store in less than 15 minutes.

"The fact that they physically did that tells me they have a lot of problems in their life," Alexander said.
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Sisters of the Valley Push For Pot Higher Power

These Cannabis Growing Nuns Answer To A Higher Power
Photographers capture the mind-altering heroines known as the Sisters of the Valley.
Huffington Post
Priscilla Frank
04/06/2016

The sisters are driven by a desire to relieve. “We disagree with the concept that suffering is normal and a part of life,” Sister Kate explained in an interview with The Daily Beast. “We think that’s bullshit. Suffering isn’t a part of life; they’re making it so when they criminalize plant-based remedies.”

When photographers Shaughn Crawford and John DuBois heard about two feminist nuns growing cannabis, they knew they wanted to get it on camera. The photographers tracked down Sister Kate and Sister Darcy, who graciously invited them to their central California “abbey” to watch the magic in action.

Before we say anything else, Sister Kate and Sister Darcy are self-ordained nuns who created their own order. So, although they wear white robes and call themselves highly spiritual, they are not Catholic, nor are they abstinent or subordinate to any priest.
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Norfolk Navy Officer Charge With Espionage

Navy officer charged with espionage in military court at Norfolk Naval Station
The Virginian-Pilot
By Brock Vergakis
Published: April 9, 2016

The officer belongs to a unit that provides airborne anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare and maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations from planes such as the P-8A Poseidon, P-3C Orion and unmanned MQ-4C Triton.

NORFOLK — A Navy officer assigned to a patrol and reconnaissance group has been charged in military court with two counts of espionage, punishable by the death penalty under certain conditions.

The lieutenant commander is being held at the brig in Chesapeake and appeared at the military equivalent of a preliminary hearing at Norfolk Naval Station on Friday, according to the Navy. The officer’s identity has not been released and charge sheets detailing his alleged crimes were heavily redacted.

The charge sheets say the officer communicated secret information “relating to the national defense to representatives of a foreign government.” The documents do not specify what information was provided, when it was provided or which nation it was provided to.
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Marine From Destin Florida Robbed in Houston of Everything He Owned

Marine robbed during overnight stay in Houston
KHOU
Rucks Russell
April 08, 2016

He said thieves stole his service uniforms, laptop, television, guns and his late grandfather’s medallion, which he wore around his neck when he served as a Marine in Vietnam.

HOUSTON — Sgt. Kenneth Fuqua of the U.S. Marine Corps is struggling to put his life back together.

“I lost everything, all of my worldly possessions,” he said. 

He showed pictures of his pickup truck showing the flatbed cover smashed open and belongings strewn all over the ground.

The sergeant spoke out as he traveled with his mom from their native California to Destin, Fla., where he will assume a new assignment with the corps.

But along the way, they spent a night at a Houston Marriot in the Galleria. Fuqua said he paid extra to park in the hotel’s secure garage and was stunned by what he found the next morning.
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