Quantico

FBI agents at Quantico’s Critical Incident Response Group are mourning the loss of two of thier own.

Special Agent Christopher Lorek and Special Agent Stephen Shaw were killed Friday off the coast of Virginia Beach. The two were apart of a specialized hostage rescue team.

QUANTICO, Va. — There will be loud noises coming from Quantico Middle/High School tomorrow.

The Marine Corps base of the same name on which it sits and emergency first responders scheduled an active shooter drill beginning at noon. Quantico officials warn the exercise is only a drill, and asked residents not be alarmed.

QUANTCO, Va. — The top man in charge of Quantico’s Officer’s Candidate School, where three Marines died in March, is out of a job.

The Marine Corps Times reports decorated infantry officer Col. Kris Stillings was relieved of command Monday. Stillings was selected to lead OCS two years ago, but officials told the corps newspaper the decision to relieve him was a “painful” one that “boiled down to accountability.”

QUANTICO, Va. — The scene is now clear, and what officials at Quantico thought was a suspicious white powdery substance at the town’s post office turned out to be nothing.

A HAZMAT team called to the post office was cleared at 9:40 a.m., according to a base spokesman. The post office was closed about 10 a.m. today after a suspicious substance was found, according to base officials.