Spc. Joseph A. Ford, 23, of Knox, Ind., died May 10 in Al Asad, Iraq, of injuries suffered in a vehicle accident. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 152nd Cavalry Regiment, 76th Brigade Combat Team, Indiana National Guard, New Albany, Ind.

The Press-Enterprise -- A 20-year-old woman with ties to the Inland region died Friday from an injury she suffered while serving in Iraq.

Army Spec. Mary J. Jaenichen, who lived in Temecula before entering active duty, died in Iskandariyah, Iraq, of a noncombat-related injury, a Department of Defense news release said.

She was assigned to the Brigade Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division of Fort Stewart, Ga.

Pfc. Aaron J. Ward, 19, of San Jacinto, Calif., died May 6 in Al Anbar, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his unit came under small arms fire while conducting cordon and search operations. He was assigned to the 170th Military Police Company, 504th Military Police Battalion, 42nd Military Police Brigade, Fort Lewis, Wash.

Spc. Alex D. Gonzalez, 21, of Mission, Texas, died May 6 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered small arms fire and a rocket-propelled grenade attack. He was assigned to the 43rd Combat Engineer Company, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas.

Lance Cpl. James F. Kimple, 21, of Carroll, Ohio, and four Marines died May 2 in Al Anbar province, Iraq, supporting combat operations. They were assigned to the Combat Logistics Battalion 1, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Kimple, a married father of three, was on his second deployment to Iraq. He grew up in Carroll, Ohio, a town south of Columbus. He attended high school until his senior year and earned a GED before joining the Marine Corps, said Lewis Taylor, owner of the Taylor Funeral Home in Amber, Ohio.

Rocky Mountain News -- Ron Martinez knew something was wrong when he heard the two dogs barking from their kennel on his property in Monte Vista.

He looked out the door and saw two uniformed Marines and a pair of sheriff's deputies.

He knew why they had come.

"My whole world stopped," Martinez said Sunday. "I didn't want to open the door. But I knew I had to."

The officers were there to inform Martinez and his wife, Carol, that their 31-year-old son, Glen, a Marine sergeant based in Fallujah, Iraq, had been killed Friday by a roadside bomb. He was on his second tour of duty in Iraq.

AZ Central -- Glendale solider Pvt. Corey L. Hicks' family remembered him Monday as a good kid who always planned to be in the service.

Hicks, 22, died Friday after an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle in Baghdad, Iraq.

His stepfather, Tim Settle, said the Cortez High School graduate was always trying to make everyone laugh. The last time he talked to Hicks was Thursday when he asked Settle to begin looking for a truck that they could fix up when he got back from Iraq in November.

"I'd want him to be remembered as a hero," Settle said. "It took a lot of guts to go over there and sign up for the military in a time of war."

Hicks told his family that he was going to Iraq about a week before he left in early March 2007.

WAPT -- JACKSON, Miss. -- Lance Corporal Casey Casanova of McComb, Miss., is the first Mississippi woman to be killed while fighting in Iraq.

Casanova was one of four Marines killed Friday when an improvised explosive device went off near the vehicle they were driving in the Anbar province.

Family members said that this was Casanova's second year as a Marine. She was deployed in January to Iraq.

"She didn't have to join the Marines, it was a choice she made," said Craig Casanova, Casey's father. "She just felt like she had a purpose in life when she joined the marines and was just happy doing what she was doing."

Casey Casanova's mother, Paula Carruth lives in McComb. She said the 22-year-old was a musician with a great singing voice, and she played the drums.