For five tense days, Navy Petty Officer Carl McLaughlin, 21, of Dry Fork, waited anxiously aboard the U.S.S. Bainbridge while four Somali pirates held Capt. Richard Phillips hostage in a lifeboat from his ship, the Maersk Alabama

I strongly believe that forceful measures should be taken to reduce piracy and prevent the kind of incident we saw last week off the Somali coast.

Less than two months into its latest deployment, the Virginia-based USS Bainbridge found itself at the forefront of a tense overseas showd

Governor Timothy M. Kaine released the following statement today on the seizure by pirates off the coast of Somalia of the Norfolk, Virginia-based container ship Maersk Alabama