DuBois Marine saves woman in Okinawa

After an elderly woman was bitten by a venomous snake in Japan a U.S. Marine armed with medical training and a belt intervened and saved her life, according to a Marine Corps news release. While cooking out with friends on Nov. 6 in Kin, a town in the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan, Marine Sgt. John James heard a commotion. (He has family in the Pawnee County area. He is from DuBois.) “We were…