Blackhawk News

Recently, an Iraq war veteran approached Richard E. Fox, a retired Army non-commissioned officer, looking for help filing a claim to the Veterans Administration.

Most of the troops' downtime activities here in the 1-150th Assault Helicopter Division can be placed into one of four categories: Going to the gym, spending time on the computer, talking on the telephone or watching television.

US Army soldiers in the 1/501st of the 25th Infantry Division race toward a Blackhawk helicopter as they are picked up from a mission October 15, 2009 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.

US Army soldiers in the 1/501st of the 25th Infantry Division race toward a Blackhawk helicopter as they are picked up from a mission October 15, 2009 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.

Michael Cote wasn't supposed to focused on romance during basic training. But he and the woman who would eventually become his wife, Ashlee - a fellow soldier - found a way around that policy.

It's a rare sight -- nearly a dozen Blackhawk helicopters taking to the sky in a deployment to a war zone.

Family and friends said an emotional goodbye to dozens of soldiers headed to Iraq Monday.

Posted 2 hours, 10 minutes ago at 10:09 am. Members of the Niles High School Student Council and the NHS varsity cheerleading squad helped the Niles Service League man the counters at the Apple Products tent this weekend during the 37th annual Four Flags Apple Festival.

At the North Dakota National Guard Aviation Support Facility in Bismarck on Wednesday evening, family members, friends, and well-wishers of a group of soldiers who fly Blackhawk helicopters came together to for a special send-off ceremony as the unit prepares for a deployment to Iraq.

Posted 4 hours, 4 minutes ago at 9:35 am. Friday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m. Blackhawk will offer a country music concert for the 37th annual Four Flags Apple Festival, which will be followed by fireworks.

Diamond Headache Clinic has signed a lease for 13,000 square feet at the recently completed 225,000-square-foot Blackhawk on Halsted mixed-use development.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday recommended ceasing production of the F-22 Raptor jet fighter, cutting back other expensive, high-tech weapons systems and shifting resources into counterinsurgency campaigns like those in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Funeral arrangements are set for a Denham Springs soldier killed in Iraq a little over a week ago.

An American helicopter crashed at an airbase north of Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding 12 others, the American military announced in a statement on Sunday.

Officials say a strong earthquake has shaken parts of the remote mountain nation of Bhutan and India's northeastern Assam state.

Rafah Crossing is open for two to three days every one to two months. It's crowded to the point of chaos -- but for Palestinians it's one of only two ways in or out of the Gaza Strip Published: 1 hour, 12 minutes ago Provided by: Time Magazine Fleeing heat, bombs, Iraqis go north for holiday AP - Iraqis celebrating the end of the holy fasting month ...

Today the US military announced : "JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq -- One U.S. service member was killed and 12 others were injured when a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter went down inside of Joint Base Balad at approximately 8 p.m. Saturday.

One killed, four wounded in Iraq cemetery attack AFP - A man was killed and four people wounded south of Baghdad on Sunday when a homemade bomb engulfed a family visiting relatives' graves as Ramadan ended and Eid al-Fitr began, police said.

The day before the August 20 elections in Afghanistan, Ghazni Province Governor Osman Osmani's prediction of an 80 percent voter turnout in his region seemed dubious.

The sides of the valley in the Nuristan Province in northeast Afghanistan were so steep the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter carrying Staff Sgt.