The U.S. Navy has identified the pilot found after his plane disappeared off the Texas coast on Wednesday.

NORFOLK—An Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during training, killing one service member and injuring eight, the Navy said. Service members were rappelling down a rope from the helicopter to the USNS Arctic around 8 p.m. Thursday off the Virginia coast near Fort Story when the aircraft crashed, said Lt. J.G. Megan Issac, a Navy spokesman.

An Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during training, killing one service member and injuring eight, the Navy said.

A Navy assault ship built with tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center is sailing to Virginia waters.

The Navy says its economic impact for the Hampton Roads area topped $14.6 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.

The Little Creek Navy base and the Army’s Fort Story are finishing their consolidation into one operation.

A federal jury is recommending the death penalty for a West Virginia man convicted of killing a sailor in a murder-for-hire plot.

Northrop Grumman Corp. has snared a $2.5 billion Navy contract to refuel and overhaul the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.

Virginia Tech and the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division have agreed to continue a research and development partnership.

The Navy says the guided missile destroyer Mitscher is heading back to Norfolk.

The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War have been found in Iraq.

Nathan Schneider has spent the past few weeks aboard what he describes as a “a floating city” in the Gulf of Oman. As you might have guessed from the location, it’s not a Carnival cruise ship. Schneider, 45, a Navy commander who grew up in Powhatan County, serves as aircraft maintenance officer for the USS Ronald Reagan. Since July 6, the 1,092-foot-long, 97,000-ton carrier has been providing support to U.S. and coalition forces fighting insurgents on the ground in southern Afghanistan with more than 60 aircraft.

Six crewmen suffered minor injuries when a Navy helicopter crashed during a training exercise last night at Fort Pickett in Nottoway County.

The amphibious dock landing ship Oak Hill is leaving Norfolk with 300 sailors on deployment through August.

A shipyard worker’s admission that he signed off on inspections he never completed has prompted Northrop Grumman Corp. and the Navy to launch an examination of welds on 13 vessels built or serviced in Newport News since 2005. The investigation was first reported by the Daily Press of Newport News and was confirmed by Northrop Grumman yesterday.