Northeast Ohio soldier dies in Iraq


January 19, 2011 at 9:35a.m.

CONCORD, Ohio (AP) — The Department of Defense says an Ohio soldier has died in Iraq.

The military identified the soldier as 41-year-old Maj. Michael S. Evarts of Concord, about 30 miles northeast of Cleveland. The department said in a news release that Evarts died Monday in Tikrit in “a noncombat related incident.”

Evarts was assigned to the 256th Combat Support Hospital in Twinsburg, Ohio.