James Edward ‘Jim’ Church
James Edward “Jim” Church, 80, of New Dover died Saturday (May 19, 2012) at his home surrounded by his large, loving family, following a hard-fought battle with cancer.
James Edward “Jim” Church, 80, of New Dover died Saturday (May 19, 2012) at his home surrounded by his large, loving family, following a hard-fought battle with cancer.

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what has already happened in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dwight Harold Hewett, born June 21, 1917 in Licking County to Dean L Hewett and Ada Ellen Myers Hewett passed away late Thursday evening (May 10, 2012) at the Arbors at Delaware.

WASHINGTON — The military is under-reporting the number of times that Afghan soldiers and police open fire on American and other foreign troops.
Michael R. Teets, 70, of Radnor passed away Tuesday (April 24, 2012) at Riverside Methodist Hospital.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a deal Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership agreement that ensures Americans will provide military and financial support to the Afghan people for at least a decade beyond 2014, the deadline for most foreign forces to withdraw.

Forty-three years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry Crile reconnected with a man he fought beside in the U.S. Army Green Berets.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Sunday nudged rival Newt Gingrich to step aside, arguing a head-to-head contest between himself and Mitt Romney should “occur sooner rather than later.” A defiant Gingrich predicted victories in Tuesday’s primaries in Alabama and Mississippi and called Romney the weakest Republican front-runner in nearly a century.