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Local response to Fort Hood tragedy: No immediate changes on bases here
Military installations in Hampton Roads reported no immediate changes in security posture because of a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday afternoon.
Free Salute to Veterans concert Friday
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.
Public helps shape Monroe plan
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.
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Hampton Notebook: Health officials investigating King Street meat market
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.
Fort Monroe petitioners gather hundreds of signatures
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.
Environmentalists support a park for Fort Monroe
"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.
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Halloween at Fort Monroe? There are plenty of haunting legends
The ghosts at Fort Monroe are apparently not intimidated by all the serious work that goes on there.
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W-JCC School Board candidates ready to tackle to-do-list
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.
Candidate positions are murky when it comes to Fort Monroe
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.
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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.
Erasing some doubts about BRAC hiring practices
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.
Hampton Notebook: Phish's fall tour doesn't include Hampton
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 .
Army may copy Wichita's middle school leadership program
The Leadership program in Wichita middle schools could be a model for a program that top Army and education officials want to take nationwide.
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Three-way Peninsula House of Delegates race gathers steam
Del. Tom Gear is a Hampton Republican, an eight-year incumbent who is used to challenges from the left and right.
JROTC cadets take lead at Lee County schools
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.
What lies beneath Fort Monroe?
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.
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Military Notebook: French help us at Yorktown -- again. This time, it's a flyover
The decisive victory of the Revolutionary War occurred at Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781.
Army issues hand gel, cough orders in flu fight
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.
Fund seeks photos those listed on Vietnam wall
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.
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