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Peter Molina Jr., 78, an Air Force technical sergeant who retired in 1971 and then managed stores for the Southland Corp., the corporate parent of 7-Eleven, died June 13 at his home in Alexandria. He had heart disease. Sgt. Molina served 20 years in the Air Force and was a combat veteran of the Korean War. His final active-duty assignment was at the Technical Applications Center in Alexandria. He then spent 24 years with Southland, managing stores in Northern Virginia. Peter Molina Jr. was born in Boston and raised in Revere, Mass.

Rockville High School senior Michelle Miller had "huge plans" for a future in the Army Reserve and the 17-year-old honor student was set to begin basic training this summer, her father said. On Monday, she was found dead in the Germantown home of a U.S. Army staff sergeant who, her family said, had helped recruit her. Montgomery County police said 31-year-old Adam A. Arndt shot Miller and then killed himself, leaving her family, friends and classmates to mourn a bright, ambitious teen who was only months from...

Frank W. Beach Jr., 90, a retired Air Force senior master sergeant who was a professional photographer and genealogist and for the past 18 years the front desk concierge at the Barton House Apartments in Arlington County, died May 22 at Capital Hospice in Arlington after a stroke. Mr. Beach served in the Army Air Forces during World War II. After the war, he worked as a professional photographer in North Carolina until rejoining the military in the early 1950s. He served in the Korean and Vietnam wars before retiring from the...

A Secret Service sergeant was arrested early Saturday after he allegedly tried to solicit sex from a D.C. police officer working undercover as a prostitute, authorities said. The sergeant, driving his Secret Service vehicle and in uniform, encountered the undercover officer about 12:50 a.m. near 11th and K streets NW, said Inspector Brian Bray, commander of the District's narcotics and special investigations division. After bantering about prices and services, Bray said, the woman agreed to perform oral sex for $20 and told the...

A driver being followed by an acting Prince George's County sheriff's sergeant on the Capital Beltway yesterday morning crashed into a guardrail, killing his passenger and seriously injuring himself, authorities said. Kent Chambers, 30, of the District was traveling at an "extremely high" speed on northbound Interstate 495 when his 2008 Infinity G35 passed the acting sergeant traveling toward College Park, authorities said. The sergeant, Shawn Davenport, activated his lights and siren, but Chambers did not slow down, said Sgt. Mario Ellis, a spokesman for the...

Metro officials, revealing new details about last month's botched Green Line evacuation, said Thursday that miscommunication between a transit police sergeant and the transit agency's command center complicated efforts to assist about 2,000 passengers who were stranded on two trains in Southeast Washington. About 200 passengers exited the train and walked the tracks to an emergency exit in Anacostia. It was the second time in less than a year that frightened, frustrated passengers aboard a stranded Metro...

D ear reader: Please do not cancel your subscriptions to this fine newspaper, or otherwise punish it. Its editors have not ordered me to rewrite corny jokes into poetry ; I do it of my own volition. It will be over soon. "The Camel" in the style of an English heroic sonnet An officer takes up his new command: A desert outpost, lonely and austere. He asks the sergeant how the men can stand To be so long without a woman near. The sergeant...

A 17-year-old from Brandywine was killed in St. Mary's County yesterday when she lost control of her car and struck a tree, the county sheriff's office said. The crash occurred about 3:20 p.m. at Routes 5 and 6. A 16-year old passenger was flown to a hospital, where she was listed in critical condition. -- Elissa Silverman A Maryland State Police sergeant died last week after he was hit by a tree-trimming truck in North Carolina, authorities said yesterday. First Sgt. Tobin T. Triebel, 39, who had been vacationing with his family, was...

Metro officials, revealing new details about last month's botched Green Line evacuation, said Thursday that miscommunication between a transit police sergeant and the transit agency's command center complicated efforts to assist about 2,000 passengers who were stranded on two trains in Southeast Washington. About 200 passengers exited the train and walked the tracks to an emergency exit in Anacostia. It was the second time in less than a year that frightened, frustrated passengers aboard a stranded Metro...

You may like the idea of Chuck Hagel as defense secretary or loathe it . You may consider his views on Iran sound or feeble, his comments about "the Jewish lobby" inoffensive or ugly, his views on a policy of extensive assassination — sorry, "taking terrorists off the battlefield" — unremarkable or chilling, his apology for harsh remarks about a gay ambassador sincere or opportunistic. Whatever you believe about any of those things, you should disregard what appears to be...

Edward G. Mantor, 96, a retired Army command sergeant major who served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, died Nov. 15 at his home in Rockville. He had coronary artery disease, said his niece Donna Hrozencik. Edward George Mantor was born in Utica, N.Y. He joined the Army in 1942 and served in Europe during World War II . During a postwar assignment in Germany, he helped manage the transport of supplies during the Berlin Airlift. In addition to his service in Korea and Vietnam, he did...

Expect to pick up more than just weights if you enlist in Thank Dog! Bootcamp , a fitness and obedience program that started up this month in Arlington's Bluemont Park. "We clean up our poop. It's one of the rules of class," says owner and personal trainer Karen Krieg, who'd been looking for a way to merge her two loves: fitness and dogs. She found her inspiration while watching Animal Planet's "Dogs 101. " The show highlighted the work of Thank Dog!, which was founded in Burbank, Calif., in 2008 by Jill...

Calvert County BROWN, Alfred Eugene Sr., 79, of Chesapeake Beach, a long-distance truck driver, died July 14 at Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, BROWN, Jestine A. DeLee, 81, of Prince Frederick, a teacher, died July 14 in Huntingtown. JONES, Mary Ellen Gross, 100, of Chesapeake Beach, a homemaker, died July 15 at Burnett-Calvert Hospice House. Charles County ALLEN, Steve Edward, 73, of Waldorf, a police detective sergeant in the District, died July 22 at home.

Grace Mueller, 95, an Army sergeant major who retired in 1973 as a specialist in assignments for senior female noncommissioned officers, died July 4 at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Washington. She had heart ailments, said a nephew, Lance Mueller. Grace Lillian Mueller was born in Cleveland. In 1942, she joined what became the Women's Army Corps, and she served at posts in the United States during World War II. She settled in the Washington area in 1968 and was a District resident.

CORRECTION: A correction to this column incorrectly described former Washington Redskins quarterback Eddie LeBaron as a sergeant major during his Marine Corps service in the Korean War, as did the column. He was a second lieutenant when he was wounded in action, as the correction said, but he retired as a major and not, as the correction said, a sergeant major. The column said that Eddie LeBaron was a sergeant major in the Marine Corps when he was injured during the Korean War. LeBaron retired as a sergeant major,...

Three Fairfax County police officials have been temporarily removed from their duties after a police officer studying for a promotional exam said he was leaked questions to the test, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Fairfax Police Chief David M. Rohrer sent an e-mail to his department Tuesday confirming an investigation into a cheating scandal, saying that the breach was limited and that the test had been scrapped. Numerous law-enforcement sources familiar with the investigation said that a sergeant...

A former Prince George's County police sergeant was sentenced Monday to nearly four years in prison in a case linked to a far-reaching corruption probe involving county officials and prominent real estate developers. Richard J. Delabrer, who worked for the police department for more than two decades, pleaded guilty in the spring to a scheme to smuggle alcohol and millions of untaxed cigarettes from Virginia to Maryland. "Your whole mission was to enforce the law, and you turned your...

Albert Augson Jr., 52, who retired in 2002 as an Air Force technical sergeant and became a government contractor with a specialty in intelligence work, died May 2 at his home in Gaithersburg after a heart attack. The death was confirmed by his wife, Truda Augson. Albert Augson Jr. was born in Norfolk and attended Norfolk State University. He served for 20 years in the Air Force and developed an expertise in intelligence work. His final active-duty assignment was at Fort Meade.