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The shooting was the first U.S. school shooting of 2023, [1] but the third incident of gun violence in Newport News Public School district in seventeen months. [2] The shooting was one of sixteen U.S. school shootings perpetrated by shooters under the age of ten years since 1970. [3]
Virginia Women in History was an annual program sponsored by the Library of Virginia that honored Virginia women, living and ... (1924–2021), Newport News, educator ...
Aaron Brooks – American football player (born 1976); Earl Faison – American football player (1939–2016), attended Huntington High School [1]; Ella Fitzgerald – American jazz singer (1917–1996) [2]
Newport News-Williamsburg Airport (IATA: PHF, ICAO: KPHF, FAA LID: PHF) is in Newport News, Virginia, United States, and serves the Hampton Roads area along with Norfolk International Airport in Norfolk. The airport is owned and operated by the Peninsula Airport Commission, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Djerba ().; Matmata (Open-Air Museum of "Troglodyte" houses), Governorate of Gabes, south part of Tunisia, the whole village registered by UNESCO World Heritage, today is maintained by the Association of the Cultural Protection of Matmata)
The Apprentice School is a four to eight-year apprenticeship vocational school founded in 1919 and operated by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in Newport News in the U.S. state of Virginia. The school trains students for careers in the shipbuilding industry.
Peninsula Catholic High School was founded in 1903 as St. Vincent de Paul School for girls by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth with the help of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan, who donated significant funds and the original school building in downtown Newport News; it became co-educational in 1929 when the Xaverian Brothers closed their school for boys.
A 1585 painting of a Chesapeake Bay warrior by John White; this painting was adapted to represent Opechancanough in the engraving above.. Opechancanough (/ oʊ p ə ˈ tʃ æ n k ə n oʊ / oh-pə-CHAN-kə-noh; 1554–1646) [2] was paramount chief of the Powhatan Confederacy in present-day Virginia from 1618 until his death.