Fort Monroe News

Military installations in Hampton Roads reported no immediate changes in security posture because of a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday afternoon.

U.S. Joint Forces Command will host its 14th annual "Salute to Veterans" concert on Friday at 7:00 pm in Norfolk's Chrysler Hall.

Loading... A 2005 aerial view of Fort Monroe in Hampton. The Civil War Preservation Trust puts the fort on its lists of endangered and at-risk battlefields.

A business that apparently opened in late October to sell huge packages of meat from a vacated storefront is under investigation by the Hampton Health District.

In June, petitioners gathered more than 7,300 signatures in an effort to block proposed residential development on city-owned land near Buckroe Beach Park.

"The sense I get is that it hasn't been evaluated to the extent that it should be," said Christy Everett, the foundation's Hampton Roads director.

The ghosts at Fort Monroe are apparently not intimidated by all the serious work that goes on there.

But even with the many tasks ahead, Joe Fuentes and Gualano Davis are not deterred in their quest for the $5,500-a-year job.

When the Army leaves Fort Monroe in 2011, the man living in the governor's mansion is going to have tremendous sway over the future of the 570-acre waterfront outpost.

Fort Algernoune, 1609 Celebration at Fort Monroe . 4 p.m. today. Celebration and commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Anglo-America's first coastal fortification.

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced today that the President has made the following nominations.

If there are still any BRAC doubters out there, you should have seen the turn out for the Fort Knox Job Information Sessions at the Urban League Economic Empowerment Tour and Career Fair in Louisville last month.

Some city employees and people who work in the Coliseum Central Business Improvement District have whispered about a possible return this fall of Phish , the Vermont -based band that held a reunion concert in March at the Hampton Coliseum .

The Leadership program in Wichita middle schools could be a model for a program that top Army and education officials want to take nationwide.

Del. Tom Gear is a Hampton Republican, an eight-year incumbent who is used to challenges from the left and right.

Attention! Right face. Present arms. The sounds of Army commands are echoing across high school campuses this fall as Lee County reports a 28 percent increase in students participating in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

The bomb squad. Even garbage collectors. Each description is applicable to contractors scouring Fort Monroe for unknown pieces of metal buried underwater at the historic Army post.

The decisive victory of the Revolutionary War occurred at Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781.

Soldiers in boot camp are getting something new this year besides rigorous basic training -- Army-green bottles of hand sanitizer gel, part of a stepped-up effort by the military to ward off swine and seasonal flu.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is beginning to gather photographs of each of the more than 58,000 men and women whose names are listed on the memorial wall in Washington.