3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (38+ words) Sailors and their families celebrated on Saturday as the USS Iwo Jima returned home after a 10-month deployment. Sailors and their families celebrated on Saturday as the USS Iwo Jima returned home after a 10-month deployment....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (342+ words) VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Wet weather forced the annual Memorial Day ceremony at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront indoors this year, but it did not dampen the spirit, honoring veterans who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Veterans, other community members and local leaders…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (448+ words) RICHMOND, Va. — Dozens gathered at the Virginia War Memorial on Memorial Day to pay tribute to the nearly 12,000 men and women from the Commonwealth who gave their lives in service to the country. Maj. Gen. James Ring, Adjutant General of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (244+ words) NORFOLK, Va. — The Larchmont-Edgewater Civic League is hosting its fourth annual Memorial Day parade, community fair, and wreath-laying ceremony Monday morning. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and features a 1.2-mile parade beginning at St. Patrick Catholic School and ending…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (301+ words) NORFOLK, Va. — The Larchmont-Edgewater Civic League will host its fourth annual Memorial Day parade, community fair, and wreath-laying ceremony Monday morning, with organizers prepared to make adjustments if rain moves in. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and features…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (178+ words) HANOVER COUNTY, Va. — A Mechanicsville veteran injured during his second deployment to Iraq received the keys to a new, mortgage-free, specially adapted home Saturday morning during a ceremony hosted by the nonprofit Homes for Our Troops. Retired Army Staff Sgt....

5+ mon, 1+ 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, 2+ week ago   (505+ words) “The Star-Spangled Banner” played at 8 a.m. sharp at Pier 10 at Naval Station Norfolk on Wednesday as sailors from the USS Ross prepared their ship to get underway. The destroyer is part of the George H. W. Bush carrier strike…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (469+ words) LEXINGTON, Va. (WSET) — What first started as an arsenal to store militia firearms in the early 1800s is now one of the most well-known military institutions in the country. The ideals of character and honor still, to this day, shape the…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (127+ words) RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia War Memorial is calling all Operation Desert Storm veterans and their families to a free, day-long reunion event in Richmond later this month — 35 years after the conflict. The inaugural Salute to Service event on Saturday, March…...