NORFOLK, Va.-- Nancy Sheppard is a local historian shining a light on a forgotten disaster. It’s a history lesson that every person in Hampton Roads should hear. “It spent 95 years being forgotten,” ...

Even today, almost 80 years later, the fiery finish of the Hindenburg in New Jersey is familiar to many Americans. Herbert Morrison’s famous eyewitness radio report – “Oh, the humanity” – helped to ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- Nancy Sheppard is a local historian shining a light on a forgotten disaster. It’s a history lesson that every person in Hampton Roads should hear. “It spent 95 years being ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC/AP) - A hydrogen airship crash in Norfolk that killed nearly three dozen people in 1922 is among several topics that will be highlighted on new highway markers across the state.

Midway through the morning of Nov. 15, 1921, an eye-popping sight rose into the skies over Langley Field. At 410 feet long, the airship Roma was a leviathan — the largest lighter-than-air craft in the ...

NORFOLK, Va. – The Virginia Department of Historic Resources recently approved 12 new historical highway markers for placement along Virginia roads. One of those new markers will be placed in Norfolk ...