West Point

Friday's TV Highlights: 'Shark Tank' on ABC

2013-05-16 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- � SERIES Undercover Boss Following last week'...

David Petraeus, former CIA chief and military leader, joins USC

2013-05-02 00:10:00

David H. Petraeus, the former four-star U.S. Army general who resigned as head of the Central Intelligence Agency last year after confessing to an extramarital affair, will teach part-time at USC and help mentor students who are veterans, officials are...

David Petraeus to teach at CUNY school in New York

2013-04-24 14:14:00

David Petraeus, the former four-star general who was forced out as head of the Central Intelligence Agency because he had an affair with his biographer, has accepted a post as a visiting professor in New York. In a statement released Tuesday, Macaulay...

Football: Kicker Jonathan Kim will soon join brothers at Army

2013-04-22 13:34:34

'Disconnect' is a 'grand experiment' for Henry-Alex Rubin

2013-04-11 06:00:00

Movie directors can come across as all sorts of personalities — arrogant, collegial, mercurial, dictatorial. Filmmaker Henry-Alex Rubin arrived on the set of "Disconnect", his first narrative feature, striking an unusual pose: clueless. "I have no...

With Al Qaeda shattered, U.S. counter-terrorism's future unclear

2013-04-14 21:09:00

WASHINGTON — Skilled in tracking foreign terrorists, Jarret Brachman once was a sought-after expert on Al Qaeda, advising several federal agencies and speaking regularly around the country. Now the former research director of the Combating...

At Army base, an aggressive campaign against suicide

2013-04-14 05:00:00

FT. BLISS, Texas — Army Pvt. John Jeffery stumbled into Kyle Boswell's barracks room at Ft. Bliss before dawn one day in February, his eyes glassy. "I've done something," Jeffery mumbled to his buddy. "I can't tell anyone. It's going to happen."...

Civilian CEO moves to modernize military's retail business

2013-03-27 00:00:00

The first civilian to run the military's $10-billion-a-year retail business is working to bring the enterprise into the modern age. The CEO of the Dallas-based Army & Air Force Exchange Service, Tom Shull, is the first retailer to hold the post. It...

Lessons from a five-star president

2013-01-28 00:00:00

As President Obama contemplates his second term, he has been talking to historians about another two-term president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. We think of Ike as a great military man, but as president he used his understanding of the military to rein it in....

Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78

2012-12-28 00:00:00

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who presided over the swift and devastating 1991 military assault on Iraq that transformed the Middle East and reminded America what it was like to win a war, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 78. The...

Fred Kaplan's 'The Insurgents' takes on Petraeus and policy

2013-01-18 04:05:00

-------------------- The Insurgents David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War Fred Kaplan Simon & Schuster: 400 pp, $28 -------------------- Everyone knows — or thinks they know — about the influence exerted by the...

Charles Durning dies at 89; Tony winner also got Oscar, Emmy nods

2012-12-25 08:22:00

Charles Durning, a Tony Award-winning actor whose prolific work in films and television included supporting roles in the classic comedy "Tootsie" and the TV sitcom "Evening Shade," died Monday. He was 89. Durning, a decorated veteran of World War II,...

West Point Town Council filed two lawsuits against King William County on Monday. Council met that night to hear from residents and approve its advertised budget.

2013-04-30 07:56:00

West Point Gardens offers different housing styles suitable to a range of homebuyers.

2013-04-18 00:00:00

A West Point classmate of Ulysses S. Grant, Peck was ordered to fortify Suffolk after distinguishing himself in the Peninsular Campaign and improving the Union defenses at Yorktown.

2013-04-10 00:00:00