Ahmed K. Altaie

Jim Acklin said that in his 31 years in education, he met more than 5,000 students, and Maj. Audo stood out, both on the St. Joseph-Ogden High School track team and in honors biology.

Telegraph.co.uk -- Guardsman McGee, 28, died in hospital on Sunday. Police said a 28-year-old man was being held in connection with his death.

Guardsman McGee, who served with the Scots Guards in Iraq, was found injured in the town's McConnell Road in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The soldier, who had been working to recruit youngsters into the Scots Guard, was taken to Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley where he died a short time later.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Charges have been dropped against one of four U.S. soldiers accused of mistreating others in their platoon in Iraq following an investigation into the suicide of an Ohio serviceman, the military said Friday.

Photo - Kieffer Wilhelm, a 19-year-old Army private from Willard, Ohio, who killed himself in Iraq in August 2009.

Spc. Daniel Weber of Frankenmuth, Mich., resigned from the Army and is expected to testify against two of his unit supervisors, said Maj. Myles Caggins, a spokesman for Multinational Division-South.

McALLEN — Military officials disclosed more details Thursday about an Alton soldier killed in Iraq this week.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Bradley Espinoza, 26, of Alton, died Monday in Qwest, Iraq, after enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device, according to a news release issued by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Espinoza was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division based in Fort Hood.

CBS7 News -- HILLSBORO Investigators in Hill County are still trying to piece together the motives behind the fatal shooting of an Army soldier by an Odessa woman in what Hill County Sheriff Jeffrey Lyon called “a tragic accident.”

Lyon said 24-year-old April Danielle Thompson was charged with manslaughter after police accused her of firing a gun and fatally wounding 20-year-old Army Pvt. Cody Patterson early Saturday in his home in Blum, about 40 miles north of Waco. Lyon said investigators did not find any evidence to suggest the homicide was premeditated and deliberate, though they accused Thompson of running from Patterson’s home after the shooting and fleeing 30 miles away to Glen Rose.

According to military officials, Pfc. Daniel J. Rivera, 22, of Rochester died Sunday morning in Mosul, Iraq, from injuries he suffered in a motor-vehicle accident. Rivera’s relatives initially thought he died in Afghanistan.

Rivera, a 2005 graduate of Victor High School, joined the Army in October 2008 and had been stationed out of Fort Hood, Texas, since December.

NUBAI, Iraq – A combined effort between Soldiers, Airmen and the Iraqi army at Camp Taji, Iraq, brought much-needed school supplies to young Iraqi school children Oct. 7 at Al Abar Primary School – the first in a string of humanitarian efforts called Operation Back to School.

Operation Back to School is a volunteer mission that has been months in the making, spearheaded by Air Force Lt. Col. E. Kent Wong, director of operations, 821st Expeditionary Training Squadron, who said a joint effort between Army and Air Force made this day possible.

Maj. Rob Edwards, brigade public affairs officer and provost marshal with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 155th Heavy Brigade Combat Team and a Saltillo, Miss., native, said the mission began in early August.

The Brown and White -- Janelle Pham, a graduate student who went to Iraq as a member of the Military Police Corps, shared her experiences as a prison guard personally responsible for prisoners of war in Iraq on Sept. 30 at Packer House.

Pham said she always saw herself joining the reserves. She often played with G.I. Joes as a child, which only further motivated her desire to be in the reserves.

Photo: Janelle Pham, a graduate student in sociology and anthropology, is a member of the U.S. Army’s 744th Military Police Battalion in Bethlehem.

"It just seemed natural that I'd one day end up in the reserves. Our freedoms don't come for free, and I'm happy to serve for all of you," Pham said.

While an undergraduate at Moravian College, Pham was a member of the ROTC program at Lehigh.