Yeoman First Class Ahmad Edwards embraces his partner Jurrell Hargraves after returning from a nine month deployment aboard the USS Harry S. Truman. The USS Harry S. Truman returned around 5,000 soldiers to Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia on Sept. 12, 2022.
The Atlas V rocket launches from pad 39A at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket is one of the world's most reliable launch vehicles used to deliver exploration spacecraft, satellites and classified payloads into space for NASA, the United States Air Force, the National Reconnaissance Office and commercial customers.
A great egret nestling walks through the car of Lisa Barlow, president of Tidewater Rehabilitation and Environmental Education. 16 great egrets were rescued after a storm the previous night impacted their nesting area in Portsmouth, Virginia on June 26, 2023.
Fernando Chavez Sr. — father of 16-year-old Fernando Chavez-Barron, who was killed in the mass shooting Nov. 22, 2022 at a Chesapeake Walmart — is consoled by friends and family at a vigil for his son Nov. 24 in the store parking lot. Five other people, and the gunman, died; four more suffered gunshot wounds.
A worker lays on the roof in after suffering from a heat stroke while working on roofing repairs. Tornados left significant damage across Tupelo, Mississippi on May 2, 2021 and left thousands without power.
Deontae Arrington, 10, is cheered on by his friends as he slides down a slip n' slide near his home in the Park Place neighborhood. Temperatures made their wave above 100 degrees Fahrenheit during a heat wave across the Hampton Roads area on July 6, 2022.
Lt. Ian Arbuckle holds his wife Katie Arbuckle for the first time after being away for 8.5 months with Carrier Strike Group 10 at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on April 21, 2023.
A late afternoon tornado brought severe damage to the Great Neck section of Virginia Beach, Virginia, as seen on May 1, 2023.
Spectators take photos of a sub-adult humpback whale that washed ashore near 25th Street in Virginia Beach, Virginia, as it is pulled onto land by the Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response Program on March 3, 2024.
Aaron Jackson stands in the laundry room of his residence in Portsmouth, Virginia, dressed as Bumblebee from Transformers on June 23, 2023. Jackson walks around three miles along Portsmouth Blvd waving to drivers hoping to bring them joy. He started wearing costumes to lift spirits during the coronavirus pandemic.
A firefighter controls a hose from the top of a ladder as the Virginia Beach fire department work a fire in the 2600 block of Atlantic Avenue at the Virginia Beach oceanfront, July 11, 2023.
President Joe Biden speaks about healthcare in the United States at the Kempsville Recreation Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia on Feb. 28, 2023.
A fire blower spits a mouthful of gasoline onto a match to create a fireball during the Great Benjamin Circus at the Oxford Conference Center in Oxford, Mississippi on February 12, 2020.
Rows of medical marijuana are grown under controlled day-light bulbs at the Cannabist medical marijuana growing facility in Portsmouth, Virginia on Nov. 15, 2022. Cannabist is the only approved medical marijuana dispensary in the health service area 5 of Virginia. Their 65,000 square foot growing facility supplies just four. brick-and-mortar locations in Hampton Roads.
Judith Miner prays after receiving communion during the Ash Wednesday service at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia, on Feb. 14, 2024. Ash Wednesday is observed by Catholics, Lutherans, Moravians, Anglicans, and Episcopalians and some other churches in the Reformed.
Crew on the primary flight control deck watch as an E-2 Hawkeye lands aboard the USS George Washington (CVN-73) off the coast of Florida on September 14, 2023.
