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April 2, 2020 at 12:45 pm

Fish-oil firm keeps ‘sustainable’ label despite controversy

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A company that makes fish-oil supplements will keep its certification for sustainable fishing despite defiance of catch limits in the Chesapeake...

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March 31, 2020 at 9:17 am

Sheriff: Gunman killed outside North Carolina courthouse

A gunman exchanged fire with officers outside a North Carolina courthouse on Tuesday before authorities shot and killed him, a sheriff said. A deputy responding...

NASA mathematician and aeronautical engineer Dr. Christine Darden attends an event honoring NASA’s ‘Hidden Figures,’ African-American women mathematicians who helped the United States’ space program in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol March 27, 2019 in Washington, DC. Johnson, a black woman from West Virginia, was hired at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1953 as part of the Computer Pool, a group, mostly women, who worked as data processors before computers were invented. Johnson passed away Monday morning, Feb. 24, 2020; she was 101. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/TNS) 1583232 1583232

February 24, 2020 at 7:18 am

Pioneering black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film...

February 20, 2020 at 6:10 pm

Firm wants to recover the Titanic’s iconic telegraph machine VIEW

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The salvage firm that has plucked silverware, china and gold coins from the wreckage of the Titanic now wants to recover...

February 18, 2020 at 1:24 pm

Veterans group: Pentagon broke agreement to reopen database

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Pentagon has reneged on its agreement to reopen a vast records database that helps service members who are appealing a...

February 11, 2020 at 8:32 am

Last of its kind, fishery faces reckoning in Chesapeake Bay VIEW

REEDVILLE, Va. (AP) — For a guy who left school after 11th grade, George Ball figures he has the best-paying job available on this rural...

January 24, 2020 at 1:45 pm

Veterans group: Lawsuit prompts Pentagon to reopen database

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Pentagon will reopen a records database that helps service members who are appealing a less-than-honorable discharge, a veterans group said...

January 24, 2020 at 5:08 am

Virginia police officer dragged by car dies from injuries

A 24-year-old police officer in Virginia died after being dragged by a vehicle during a traffic stop, and the driver is facing charges that include...

January 3, 2020 at 1:54 pm

Lawsuit: Pentagon withholding info from veterans’ advocates

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A veterans group said the Pentagon has stopped releasing information that helps former service members to contest less-than-honorable discharges from the...

December 19, 2019 at 2:11 pm

Fish oil firm may be barred from fishing in Chesapeake Bay

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Trump Administration is threatening to effectively ban a company that makes fish oil pills from fishing in the Chesapeake Bay...

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