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53 min ago | NOLA.com

Mississippi shipyard gets $2.38 billion Navy contract to build amphibious assault ship

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

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13 hrs ago | Hampton Roads Daily Press

Brassy funk band Tower of Power to blast in Newport News

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.

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14 hrs ago | Hampton Roads Daily Press

Newport News police seek information on two home invasions

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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Wed May 30, 2012

U.S. Department of Defense

Contracts for May 30, 2012

A A A A A A General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $117,816,391 modification to previously awarded contract for engineering and technical design services to support research and development of advanced submarine technologies for current and future submarine platforms.A Advanced submarine research and development ... (more)

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Hampton Roads Daily Press

Newport News police seek suspect in carjacking

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

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Hampton Roads Daily Press

Hampton Roads, local unemployment falls again in April

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.

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Hampton Roads Daily Press

Police: Bullets hit Hampton home; two charged

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.

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WVEC-TV Norfolk

Alert neighbors help Newport News police nab burglary suspect

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.

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Tue May 29, 2012

The Washington Post

Bob McDonnell says he never opposed gay judges

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

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WAVY-TV

Teen faces robbery, carjacking charges

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.

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Mon May 28, 2012

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Memorial Day celebrated at Newport News Victory Arch

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

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WVEC-TV Norfolk

Local soldier recovering from critical injuries

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

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New York Post

Bust in airman's Bx. slay

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.

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Sun May 27, 2012

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Memorial Day: A stark reminder for families of the fallen

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

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Sat May 26, 2012

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Newport News woman's life jacket, pictures included in Mariners' Museum exhibit

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

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Hampton Roads Daily Press

Mark St. John Erickson: Peninsula talent tops TAA show

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.

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Hampton Roads Daily Press

Fat Doctor beats death, comes home to Cozzy's

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.

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Hampton Roads Daily Press

Exclusive: Hampton Roads Academy graduates 71

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

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Richmond Times-Dispatch

Masses Helping Bay Grasses

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.

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WTVR Richmond

Delegate's aide says 'intentions to vote' count as votes

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.

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