...Bunker Hill docked Monday, nearly a third of its roughly 350 sailors have been involved in a local volunteer project. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Russ Hardy, who is based in Juneau, said 100 sailors signed up to help build Project Playground, the community...

...parents live in Haines, recently arrived at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga., to complete basic military training. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Peter A. Eagle, a graduate of Juneau-Douglas High School, recently reported for duty at the Naval Air Facility...

...nation In 1864, a Colorado militia killed at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre. In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd radioed that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole. In 1952, President-elect...

...Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot." It was finished by Franco Alfano. In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd radioed that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole. In 1947, the U.N. General...

...USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a fire and explosions that killed 134 servicemen. (One survivor was Navy Lt. Cmdr. John McCain, now a U.S. senator.) In 1980, a state funeral was held in Cairo, Egypt, for the deposed Shah...