Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)

Ella Fitzgerald, with unerring sense of swing, conquered jazz

2013-04-25 10:00:00

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the first lady of song, Ella Fitzgerald, on what would have been her 96th birthday. The stylized doodle puts her in the spotlight on stage leading a quartet. Fitzgerald became the preeminent female jazz singer of...

Obama: Congress could turn off cuts with compromise

2013-02-25 09:45:00

WASHINGTON – President Obama on Monday chastised Congress for “careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis” and tried to blame lawmakers for the spending cuts due to take a bite out of agency budgets on Friday. Speaking...

Boehner: Time for Senate to get to work and stop sequester

2013-02-26 10:56:00

WASHINGTON – Seeking to shift blame onto President Obama’s party for the looming budget cuts, House Speaker John A. Boehner said Tuesday it was about time the Senate “gets off their ass” and develop a way around the enormous...

President to meet with John McCain, Lindsey Graham on immigration

2013-02-26 03:30:00

WASHINGTON -- President Obama will meet Tuesday with two of the Republicans leading Senate efforts to craft comprehensive immigration legislation. The invitation that will bring Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to the...

Boehner says Obama using military as 'props' in sequester fight

2013-02-25 14:02:00

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans said President Obama was using the nation’s armed forces as a “campaign prop” when he should be working with his party’s leaders in the Senate to avoid across-the-board spending cuts set to take...

Karl Fleming dies at 84; Newsweek reporter chronicled civil rights struggle

2012-08-12 00:00:00

Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it —...

UCLA: Dismal outlook for California's inland areas

2011-09-20 16:35:12

Question of the day: Does Boise State's win mean the Broncos will be in the BCS championship game? [Updated]

2010-09-07 16:33:35

Times health editor Tami Dennis to oversee health content for Tribune Co.

2010-09-09 16:35:37

Question of the day: Who will win this yearâ€™s NASCAR Chase: Hamlin or Johnson? [Updated]

2010-11-18 16:32:47

Question of the day: At this point in the college basketball season, which conference is the best?

2010-12-01 16:32:51

Richard Whitcomb dies at 88; engineer's discoveries changed design of jets

2009-10-19 00:00:00

Richard Whitcomb, a mechanical engineer who changed the way we fly today with three design innovations that made airplanes fly farther and faster using less fuel, has died. He was 88. Whitcomb died of pneumonia Tuesday in Newport News, Va. His...

Firefighter Charlie Brenneman (center) receives materials prior to a nuclear evacuation exercise at Hines Middle School on Wednesday. Newport News police, firefighters, shelter teams, health workers and city employees practiced evacuation assembly procedures in the event of a nuclear accident.

2013-06-19 00:00:00

Harpoon Larry's moving to Newport News

2013-06-19 00:00:00

Newport News police have charged Patrick Christopher Viteri, 24, in connection to Tuesday morning hit-and-run in the first block of Harpersville Road.

2013-06-18 06:28:00