Cody Richardson creeps me out. He pleaded guilty Wednesday to strangling his wife and sleeping in the bed with her for two days. Click the above article link to read his five-page confession, two suicide notes and a letter from his victim’s mother to the court asking for leniency (no, seriously). I did not include [...]

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 [...]

We’ve had a lot of questions in the jdnews.com comments recently about why we include information about Marines that we don’t include about other people. The latest example is today’s story about the Marine who slashed his buddy’s wrist open at a party early Sunday morning.   Read the story here.   What I find [...]

Read news here. The Daily News does not usually identify the alleged victims of sexual assault (a long-standing policy I do not totally agree with). But in this case, the wife had an interview with a New Jersey newspaper which identified her as the wife and then had an interview with her father. The newspaper [...]

Stars & Strips has a really interesting article on its Web site about Nazis in the military and quotes a Camp Lejeune Marine sergeant. Check it out. This screenshot shows a page from New Saxon, a white supremist Web site: I believe in free speech, but does this cross the line for an active duty Marine? [...]

Some commenters on the news sight are calling a nice piece of police work by a JPD officer racial profiling. I don’t agree. Read the report. It seems most people are concentrating on the fact that it was three black men who were pulled over. I think what got them pulled over was not that [...]

My favorite writer, Ernest Hemingway once said that when it comes to writing, it is more important what you leave out than what you put in. As a writer who got his start in the newspaper business, Papa knew what he was talking about. I had a good conversation Friday with a high-ranking Camp Lejeune official. [...]

A while back I got some good response and thought provoking answers out of y’all when I asked whether you would turn your spouse over to the authorities if they had been accused of a heinous crime. Let’s try again. The Daily News ran an article Sunday about a convicted murderer up for parole. In [...]

Some posters have brought up really good points about what federal and military law says about aiding and abetting a fugitive. So far we have heard the D.A. talk about North Carolina law, but I don’t know if we have heard from the Marines (since Cesar has been classified as a deserter) or the Feds [...]