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The U.S. Navy has awarded a $2.38 billion contract to Huntington Ingalls Industries to build an amphibious assault ship.

Blood, Sweat and Tears were fine in their day. Chicago can still draw a crowd. But for some fans of brass-driven soul and rock, Tower of Power will always reign supreme.

The incidents took place between 10 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. May 23 in the 900 block of Willbrook Drive and a block away in the 900 block of Shoreline Point, said Scott Helsel, spokesman for the Newport News Police Department.

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Newport News police say they have identified a second suspect in a May 23 carjacking at the Jani Food Mart off 13508 Warwick Boulevard.

The unemployment rate in Hampton Roads fell to 6.1 percent in April, down from 6.4 percent in March, the Virginia Employment Commission reported Wednesday.

Police charged 18-year-old Paris Stanback, of the first block of Colonial Place in Newport News, with shooting into an occupied dwelling in connection to the incident, Price said.

Newport News Police say Michael Carr Burnette II broke into a home on 46th Street just after midnight Tuesday to take a 42" TV, speakers, 2 gold watches and a gold chain.

Robert F. McDonnell reacts to a question from a reporter during a news conference March 10, 2010.

LatavisA Dethomas Crocker,A 18, of the no hundred block of Colony Square Court in Newport News is charged with robbery, carjacking, abduction, three counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and three counts of conspiracy to commit a felony.

Rick Thomasson, of American Legion Post 25, plays near the end of Monday's Memorial Day ceremony at the Victory Arch in Newport News.

A soldier is facing a long road to recovery after being badly injured in an IED explosion in Afghanistan.

The victim, Fabian Gonzalez 21, had been in town for only one day from his base in Newport News, Va., ABC News reported, quoting his relatives.

Tina Houchins and Dan Gautier at the grave of their son Aaron Gautier who was killed in Iraq five years ago.

This life vest is from the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship which sank recently off the coast of Italy.

TAA Portfolio Show -- "Taos Pueblo - One Horno and Ladder," by Hampton artist James Warwick Jones, is one of a series of paintings on view at the Suffolk Art Gallery in the "Tidewater Art Alliance Portfolio Exhibition." Jones won the Best in Show award for his series.

Richard Pryor loved The Fat Doctor. Pryor enjoyed watching the younger man perform, always greeted him warmly, and provided a piece of advice that The Fat Doctor has never forgotten.

The stress of college applications and senior year schoolwork had reached a boiling point.

Skyla Winkle, 10, of Gloucester, and her teacher Patty Meyerson, from Richneck Elementary in Newport News, carry wild celery grasses down to the shore to plant them in the James River.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - David Yancey is a freshman delegate from Newport News. Like others, he went home early last week instead of staying in Richmond to cast a vote on a controversial judicial appointment.