Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

A Norwegian-owned, Russian-crewed ship that authorities initially suspected of involvement in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been ...

It was the largest loss of life during a ship convoy in World War II. Volunteers with the nonprofit Stories Behind the Stars have memorialized PA’s 75 victims of the Dorchester tragedy and have ...

The U.S. Army identified the pilot of the Army helicopter involved in Wednesday’s crash above the Potomac River that ... Several Coast Guard ships and more than 200 personnel have established ...

Divers facing cold water, strong currents in Potomac River Large amounts of debris will make recovery operation more difficult More than 40 bodies have been recovered from the river Divers facing ...

A civil rights lawyer preparing for a new position with Howard University’s law school died in Wednesday evening’s plane crash at Reagan National Airport. Already working in D.C. for quite ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Police boats combed the banks of the Potomac River on Friday, slowly scanning the shoreline in the rain as investigators sought clues into the midair collision that killed ...

A sea captain and namesake of Conyngham Borough so harassed merchant ships that the English hesitated to sail around their island during the Revolutionary War. Gustavus Conyngham was feared in ...

A Norwegian ship suspected of being involved in "serious damage" to an underwater telecoms cable between Latvia and Sweden has been boarded by police. The Silver Dania cargo vessel, with an all ...

Just 24 hours before Wednesday’s catastrophic plane crash over the Potomac in which a regional American Airlines jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter, another plane was forced to abort its ...