9+ hour, 50+ min ago   (218+ words) The Battleship Wisconsin will be inaccessible to the public for three days next week as it undergoes repairs. The historic ship will be moved about 5 feet away from the downtown Norfolk pier it’s been docked at for the last 25 years…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (285+ words) When Doris Miller enlisted in the Navy in 1939, the only job open to Black sailors was mess attendant. Yet this unassuming ship’s cook would become an American hero. In my more than 25 years serving in the U.S. Navy, I learned…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (522+ words) The plot begins with our hero seated in a law office in Kill Devil Hills where his attorney advises him to get out of town, not to leave a forwarding address and to lose himself somewhere, anywhere, the IRS won’t…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (145+ words) NEWPORT NEWS — A sailor died aboard the John. F Kennedy (CVN 79) following a firearm-related incident. The U.S. Navy on Monday confirmed the sailor’s death but declined to provide further details on the incident or ensuing investigation. “We are aware of…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (627+ words) On the beaches of Normandy, France, as they have done for decades, the Allies who defeated the fascist threat in World War II will gather on Saturday to pay tribute to the nearly unfathomable gallantry on display there in 1944. It…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (877+ words) According to historic storyteller Sheila Arnold, generations ago, the drums used to speak to each other. At Fort Monroe’s African Landing Memorial ceremony late Friday afternoon, they spoke to the ancestors who landed there 407 years ago. In 1619, the Portuguese forced…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (700+ words) “’If I had a child, well, I would prefer to strangle them with my own hands than make them go through what I went through,’” she’d tell them. “For me, that was an answer that said it all,” Kolinka says....

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (642+ words) She’d been so looking forward to lounging around that March 1 morning. But a voice in Breona Brown’s head kept repeating: “Get up. Go to church.” On a top shelf in a back closet is where she found it: her grandmother’s…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (516+ words) If you’re like me, you’ve been watching the escalating crisis in the Middle East — and the growing tensions surrounding the conflict with Iran — with deep concern. Our hearts are heavy knowing that brave American men and women are once again…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (567+ words) The date is Dec. 4, 1945, at Pearl Harbor. Four years of war have passed since the infamous attack on this U.S. naval base, and Japan has surrendered. Now, in port, times are relatively quiet. A ship steward is drinking with fellow sailors…...