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 ...

Members of the Little Rock Nine will have their initials welded into the Virginia-class submarine Arkansas (SSN 800), as seen at Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding on Nov. 18 ...

Little Rock Nine member christens USS Arkansas nuclear sub in Virginia. December 7, 2024 at 4:33 p.m. | Updated December 7, 2024 at 11:36 p.m.

The future Virginia-class attack submarine USS Arkansas was christened Saturday in Newport News, Va. The ship’s sponsors are the Little Rock Nine, Black students who desegregated all-white ...

The US Navy’s Virginia-class attack submarine, the future USS Arkansas (SSN 800), has been christened at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII)-Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) in Newport News ...

The winners of the 2024 Little Rock Marathon are Trevor Uyemura, 40, of Vienna, Va. and Abigayle Money, 23, of Fayetteville. Uyemura won the men's category with an unofficial time of 2:42:59.