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A federal judge has refused to dismiss charges against a Somali man who prosecutors consider the highest-ranking pirate the U.S. has ever captured.
Virginia alcohol regulators say the Discovery Channel's "Moonshiners" television show is misleading viewers into thinking the state is tolerating illegal booze manufacturing and that it wouldn't have participated if they knew how the episodes would turn out.
A Navy tradition caught up with the repeal of the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" rule on Wednesday when two women sailors became the first to share the coveted "first kiss" on the pier after one of them returned from 80 days at sea.
Authorities investigating the deaths of five people found in a mobile home on Virginia's Eastern Shore said Friday the person responsible was among the dead.
Sentencing hearings in the United States have been postponed for the last of 11 men who have pleaded guilty to piracy for hijacking an American yacht off the coast of Africa.
A band of pirates tortured the crew of a German tanker off the coast of Somalia to extract a higher ransom payment and to find information about the ship's fuel reserves, according to a federal court filing.
Rocket science isn't easily explainable in 140 characters, but NASA is asking a group of people to do just that with a series of VIP tours for some of its ardent Twitter followers.
The former commanding officer of a Navy shipyard in Virginia slapped a female worker on the shoulder and regularly yelled at his subordinates while using profanity, intimidating them, a Navy investigative report said.
The attorney for a Somali man accused of being the highest-ranking pirate the U.S. has ever captured wants all charges against him dismissed, saying that the U.S. doesn't have the proper jurisdiction to prosecute and that even if it did, Somalia is far too dangerous a country to travel to and mount an adequate defense.
An 18,000-pound mock-up of the Orion spacecraft that will eventually send astronauts into deep space completed a test water landing on Thursday, simulating what would happen if it fell into the Pacific Ocean with moderate seas.
Survivors and relatives of those killed in the deadly attack on the USS Cole in Yemen marked the 11th anniversary of the bombing on Wednesday, weeks before the man accused of planning the attack was set to be arraigned on charges that could carry the death penalty.
Angry that he was not invited to a group dinner, the commander of a Navy flight squadron hurled insults at subordinates and slapped another sailor several times while they were all drinking at a bar in Bahrain, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
A sixth Somali man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the hijacking of a yacht that left all four Americans aboard dead.
A Somali pirate leader and an armed guard aboard a yacht where all four Americans aboard were killed off the coast of Africa were sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday.
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson took a tiny television station in southeast Virginia and turned it into a global network that helped him launch a presidential bid and become one of the nation's most influential conservative Christians. But as the televangelist's network turns 50 on Saturday, he says he's getting out of the political endorsement game.
A Maryland man who faked his death by jumping into the Chesapeake Bay was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal prison for conspiracy and communicating a false distress signal.
The U.S. Army handed over responsibility on Thursday for managing historic Fort Monroe to Virginia, which wants to turn much of the fort's valuable land at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay into a national park.
The former commander of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier who produced raunchy videos aboard the USS Enterprise can remain in the Navy despite a finding that he committed misconduct, a Navy panel ruled Wednesday.
A pair of Somali men were sentenced to life in prison on Monday for their roles in the hijacking of a yacht that left all four Americans on board dead. One of the men argued he had unsuccessfully tried to persuade his fellow pirates that the two women on board should be released.
Nearly 70 years after Capt. Anders Johanson was killed during World War II off the coast of North Carolina, his family is getting ready to finally pay their last respects.
The former skipper of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier who produced raunchy videos aboard the USS Enterprise began his defense on Tuesday as to why he should remain in the Navy by submitting a thick binder full of supportive comments to an administrative board.
The defense attorney for a Somali man accused of being a pirate negotiator says he was unlawfully interrogated aboard a government airplane after requesting a lawyer.
The USS Enterprise returned to the U.S. on Friday far removed from the controversy that marked its deployment, when its captain was fired days before the aircraft carrier's scheduled departure for producing a series of raunchy videos.
The former executive officer of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower had an inappropriate relationship with a woman soldier in the Army when both were married, but Navy investigators did not find evidence of adultery, according to an investigative report obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
Three suspected Somali pirates were charged with murder Friday in the slayings of four Americans aboard a hijacked yacht off the coast of Africa in February.
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