Editor's Note: This coverage was made possible by donations to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Community Journalism Project. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Of the honors that Elizabeth Eckford and the other ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The nuclear submarine USS Arkansas was christened Saturday, almost a decade in the making since the U.S. Navy announced that a Virginia-class submarine would bear the state's ...

NEWPORT NEWS (AP) — The nuclear submarine USS Arkansas was christened Saturday, almost a decade in the making since the U.S. Navy announced that a Virginia-class submarine would bear the state’s name.

And still others will try and make a case for a future Navy ship to be named in honor of Buffalo. Former Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who started a tradition by keeping the former USS Little ...

VIRGINIA (AP) — The nuclear submarine Arkansas was christened Saturday, almost a decade in the making since the U.S. Navy announced that a Virginia-class submarine would bear the state’s name.

When it was USS Little Rock Cmdr. Todd Peters turn to speak, he too took care of some personal business. He thanked his wife, Marybeth, crediting her for his success in life. Peters then went on to ...

“That was a cruiser,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Tuesday. “I am very familiar with the cruisers built in 1944 and ’45, because I served on one in the late ’60s and early ’70s. The USS Little Rock.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The nuclear submarine USS Arkansas was christened Saturday, almost a decade in the making since the U.S. Navy announced that a Virginia-class submarine would bear the state's ...