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Grove City Native Killed In Afghanistan

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published November 27, 2014 at 1:57 AM EST
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The Pentagon says one of two U.S soldiers killed in Afghanistan on Monday was a Grove City native. U.S. Army Sniper Joey Riley and another soldier were killed when a bomb attached to a bicycle exploded near a military convoy in Kabul. Riley graduated from Grove City High School in 2005. Also killed was 48-year-old Army Sergeant Major Wardell Turner of Maryland.

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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