Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and ...

Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship. Eventually, he would become a top ...

A 19-year-old sailor was believed to be lost at sea this week in an assumed overboard incident that led to a 45-hour search ...

The U.S. Navy has identified the sailor who was reported missing earlier this week from the aircraft carrier George ...

These three history books are worth reading this summer, from a Northern Kentucky WWII soldier's letters to a book on William Howard Taft.

Beaufort police arrested two men after an apparent gunfight in a McDonald’s parking lot Wednesday night. The two suspects, a 24-year-old Beaufort man and 35-year-old Burton man, were each charged with ...

On Aug. 1, the U.S. Navy declared a missing sailor from Middleburg, Florida, as lost at sea after he went missing in the waters off Australia.

The sailor, assigned to the USS George Washington, was reported missing on Monday afternoon local time, and the Navy ...

This post has been updated to correct the helicopter squadrons involved in the search. A search is underway in the Timor Sea ...