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  • Navy to board Big East football in 2015

    Navy is headed to the Big East, giving up more than 130 years of football independence to join a conference that is in the middle of a massive overhaul.


  • The Pentagon is shown after terrorists crashed an American Airlines Boeing 757 into the building on Sept. 11, 2001. (The Washington Times)

    Ex-naval officer gets prison time for 9/11 fraud

    A retired naval officer honored for helping rescue fellow Pentagon workers in the 2001 terrorist attack was sentenced Monday to 3½ years in prison for defrauding the Sept. 11 victims compensation fund.


  • Phil Soriano is outnumbered by women during choir practice at Leisure World retirement community north of Silver Spring, where two-thirds of the residents are women. Among Langley Park's recent immigrants from South America, women are a small minority. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

    Census: It's a man's world — or maybe a woman's

    An eclectic bunch of Washington-area locales, for wildly different reasons, have either a glut of men or a disproportionate number of women, according to a Washington Times analysis of newly released census data. The differences represent a basic dynamic affecting every facet of life for those seeking to date, those raising families and those trying to live out their days in comfort.


  • President Obama (left) and Defense Secretary Robert Gates (center) walk on May 30, 2011, to the Rose Garden at the White House with Army Gen. Martin Dempsey (front to back right), President Obama's nominee for the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Adm. James Winnefeld, nominee for vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs; and Gen. Ray Odierno, the nominee for Army Chief of Staff. (Associated Press)

    GAFFNEY: Gates turns out the lights

    I have been in Washington now for nearly 40 years and in all that time, I can't recall seeing anything quite like Robert M. Gates' ongoing farewell to arms.


  • ** FILE ** The USS Curtis Wilbur, a 8,950-ton Aegis destroyer of the U.S. Navy, right, is docked with South Korean navy ships at a naval base in Busan, South Korea, Friday, June 4, 2010. (AP Photo/ Yonhap. Jo Jong-ho)

    Navy too politically correct for 'old salts'

    The U.S. Navy is sailing into politically correct waters, sometimes at a speed too fast for the Obama administration to keep up.


  • Penn State's DeChellis heading to Navy

    Coach Ed DeChellis, who led Penn State to the NCAA tournament this year, resigned Monday to take the vacant job at Navy.


  • Naval Academy expels 3 more over synthetic pot

    The U.S. Naval Academy said Thursday that three more midshipmen have been expelled for using or possessing synthetic marijuana, bringing the total number of dismissals to 11 so far this year.


  • Petty Officer 3rd class Robert Hampton of Newport News, Va., gets a goodbye hug from his wife, Rebecca, as he prepares to deploy on the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. The USS Enterprise is deploying without its former commander as Navy brass investigates bawdy, sexually themed videos he showed to thousands of crew members. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

    Navy carrier deploys without former commander

    The new commander of the USS Enterprise on Thursday promised karaoke and video games to boost crew morale instead of the raunchy videos that cost one officer his command and forced another to delay his retirement.


  • Lt. Kelly Flinn, the nation's first female bomber pilot, stands near  the wing of a B-52 at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier, La., April  21, 1995. (Photo: Associated Press)

    The List: Military scandals

    A look at some noted scandals involving the U.S. military


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