Houston NewsLocal news for Houston, MS continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Pontotoc County accident fatality victim identified- March 31, 2008 A NeMiss business owner was killed in a one-vehicle wreck Saturday afternoon in Pontotoc County. via Northeast Mississippi Daily Journalhttp://www.topix.net/city/houston-ms/2008/03/pontotoc-county-accident-fatality-victim-iden... A soldier's funeral- March 27, 2008 "God gives us soldiers to protect our freedom" To honor his fallen brother - his best friend - Lorenzo Brown vowed Wednesday to light two candles each year, one on his brother's birthday, and the second on the day the National Guard sergeant died in Iraq.'This is not a goodbye,' he said Wednesday, gazing at his brother's casket draped in Old Glory. 'This is a good day for your next journey.'A roaring applause and dozens of shouts of 'Amen' followed, filling Harts Chapel Baptist Church where...http://www.topix.net/city/houston-ms/2008/03/a-soldiers-funeral?fromrss=1 Lerando J. Brown- March 26, 2008 Services will be held at noon Wednesday at Harts Chapel Baptist Church for Lerando Junior Brown, 27, of Poplarville, who died March 15, 2008, in Balad, Iraq. via Hattiesburg Americanhttp://www.topix.net/city/houston-ms/2008/03/lerando-j-brown?fromrss=1 Fallen soldier to be buried Wednesday- March 24, 2008 Sgt. Lerando Brown, an Army National Guard soldier from Poplarville who was killed while serving in Iraq, is to be buried Wednesday. via The South Mississippi Sun Heraldhttp://www.topix.net/city/houston-ms/2008/03/fallen-soldier-to-be-buried-wednesday?fromrss... Gulfport soldier's death in Iraq is being investigated- March 22, 2008 "When the Army put it out, that's what they said: 'Non-hostile,'" Federal officials are investigating the death of a National Guard sergeant from Gulfport found dead in Iraq last week.Candice Brown, widow of Sgt. Lerando Brown Jr., said she was told her 27-year-old husband died in Balad, Iraq, on Friday of a gunshot wound to his chest, and knows no other information about his death.The Defense Department lists the soldier's death as non-hostile - not by enemy force - and that the circumstances.http://www.topix.net/city/houston-ms/2008/03/gulfport-soldiers-death-in-iraq-is-being-inve... US military deaths in Iraq at 3,992- March 20, 2008 As of Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at least 3,992 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. via Oregonlive.comhttp://www.topix.net/city/houston-ms/2008/03/us-military-deaths-in-iraq-at-3-992?fromrss=1 Iraq war claims Gulfport native- March 19, 2008 "The military was something that he loved, that he wanted to really do." SOLDIER KILLEDCandice Brown won't forget the silly faces her husband made to make her laugh, the 25 Christmas letters he sent from Iraq to first-graders at her school, the constant reminders through phone calls and e-mail that he loved her, that she was his Cinderella.'There is a part in my heart that is gone because that part of my heart... was him,' the 27-year-old said. 'The biggest part of it is gone because he's not..http://www.topix.net/city/houston-ms/2008/03/iraq-war-claims-gulfport-native?fromrss=1 |