As y’all know, Marines with the 26th MEU assigned to the USS Kearsarge are currently involved in operations in Libya. I have been thinking about a report  I read a few weeks ago about one of those many Marines. I get a lot of press releases from the military. Most times I just look at the photos and delete the emails. [...]

Mike McHugh has an excellent column in Sunday’s newspaper about the area’s homeless and how useless it is to help some of them. Read the online version here. The column is stark in its honesty. And it comes from a very real, personal place inside Mike. The column is the result of a philosophical journey [...]

This Op/Ed piece ran in Tuesday’s Daily News. I like it because it has my name in it. Since the first cold-case squads were formally established back in the 1970s, criminal justice agencies nationwide have embraced the concept. Many branches of law enforcement have divisions that specialize in cases that remain unsolved. Others, hindered by [...]

The following column appeared in this Sunday’s edition of The Daily News: The lives of three Jacksonville men tragically collided during the early morning hours on July 17 behind a popular nightclub in the city. The reason or purpose that brought each party to this fateful place is still being pieced together by law enforcement, [...]

The following column appeared in Friday’s edition of The Daily News: “Hard times” more like “good ole days” By LINDELL KAY My mother grew up poor in the 1920s. Yep, those 1920s. The Roaring ’20s. When all the women wore flapper hats and all the men drove brand new roadsters. Well maybe in F. Scott [...]

By Justin Schoenberger I was going to write a straight news article about a new overtime policy for the Jones County Sheriff’s Office the county implemented last week, but ran out of space for it in this edition of the Jones Post. And that’s okay, since the technicalities of the deal aren’t of too much [...]