Marine tied to Charlottesville violence booted from service
CAMP LEJEUNE (AP) A U.S. Marine identified as a member of a white supremacist group involved in violence during last summer’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is out of the military after being convicted at a court-martial. The Daily News of Jacksonville, North Carolina, reports Lance Cpl. Vasillios Pistolis was kicked out of the Marine Corps […]
Ex-Marine sergeant pleads guilty in wife’s shooting death
JACKSONVILLE (AP) A former Marine Corps sergeant has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the shooting death of his wife in 2014. Local news sources report 36-year-old Christopher Michael Skaggs pleaded guilty to first-degree murder March 27 in an Onslow County courtroom. Skaggs received a mandatory life sentence without parole. Had he gone to trial as […]
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