Police search for veteran’s ashes
U.S. Park Police continue to search for a stolen urn containing the ashes of a decorated U.S. Army veteran. Police said the urn was stolen from a car parked at the National Mall. The urn contained the ashes of 83-year-old retired Army Col. Norbert Otto Schmidt of Florida. The urn was described as bronze with a cross on the lower right front.
Corrections officers won’t be
prosecuted for K-9 fondling
The five Virginia correctional officers charged in October with animal cruelty for fondling a K-9 dog and videotaping the incidents will not be prosecuted. Powhatan County prosecutors said the charges would not stand up in court. The officers were training to become K-9 handlers in Goochland County. Two of the officers no longer work for the corrections department, and three others were removed from the canine program.
