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LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has announced her new redistricting team. Former state senator, Doyle Webb, joins Rutledge’s senior staff as the redistricting director. Webb will lead the redistricting team made up of former state representatives Andy Davis and Col. Douglas House, U.S. Army, retired, who have been contracted as consultants. “I am ecstatic to welcome Doyle Webb, Doug House and Andy Davis to my team to help with this important task of redrawing state legislative districts,” said Attorney General Rutledge. “They will bring with them more than 50...

Copy to Clipboard Virginia National Guard Cpl. Jacob Fracker (L), Army veteran Thomas Robertson (Department of Justice) Two police officers charged for their respective roles in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol reportedly have military backgrounds. According to Military.com, one of the officers is still serving as a corporal in the National Guard. Thomas Robertson, an army vet, and Jacob Fracker, a Virginia National Guard infantryman and former marine, were arrested in Virginia on Wednesday. Fracker became the first person currently serving in the U.S. military to have been charged after ...

By CAITLIN M. KENNEY | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 6, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WASHINGTON — An active-duty soldier in Virginia is the 15th service member to die from the coronavirus, the Pentagon announced Wednesday, almost a month after another soldier in Germany died from the disease. Sgt. 1st Class Lisa Maria Soto, 38, died Saturday at John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell, ...

Female Soldier, 38, Is 3rd Active-Duty Service Member to Die of COVID-19 The U.S. flag sits atop a case containing remains on March 31, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jamarius Fortson) 7 Jan 2021 An Army soldier has become the third active-duty U.S. service member to die from COVID-19. Sgt. 1st Class Lisa Maria Soto, 38, an instructor with Alpha Company, 244th Quartermaster Battalion, at Fort Lee, Virginia, died Jan. 2 at a hospital in Hopewell, Virginia, not far from the base. A 20-year veteran, Soto completed two combat deployments -- to Iraq in 2005 and Afghanistan in 2011 -- and spe...

A Fort Lee instructor is the 15th service member, 2nd active-duty soldier, to die from COVID-19 A 15th service member has died from COVID-19. (Paul Sancya/AP) Sgt. 1st Class Lisa Maria Soto, 38, died Saturday at a civilian hospital near post, Fort Lee spokesman Jefferson Wolfe said. “Soto served honorably in the Army for more than 20 years, beginning as an armorer at the 95th Military Police Battalion from 2001 to 2004 in Mannheim, Germany,” Wolfe said, with a deployment to Iraq in 2004 and another to Afghanistan in 2011. At the time of her death, Soto was an advanced individual trai...