U.S. District Attorney has sentenced a 40-year-old man to 10 years for attempting to lure a 13-year-old into engaging in sex.

Soar with The Blue Angels in a brand-new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage that chronicles a year with the Navy’s elite Flight Demonstration Squadron—from selection through the challenging training and demanding show season—showcasing the extraordinary teamwork, passion, and pride that fuels America’s best, the Blue Angels.

We’ve told you about the Jacksonville-based Navy ships, helicopters and crews involved in combat operations over the past year. And, as the US Navy continues to serve in the Red Sea, engaging with Iranian-backed Houthi missiles and drones, we wanted to take a closer look at the Jacksonville-based assets involved.

Thousands of people honored those who are laid to rest at the Jacksonville National Cemetery on Saturday morning at the Wreaths Across America event.

No one disputes that the Navy shares blame for the loss of the USS Bonhomme Richard, the $1.2 billion amphibious assault ship that was consumed by flames in San Diego in July 2020 as it was undergoing maintenence.

More than a half dozen former crewmembers of the USS Bonhomme Richard gave testimony in the arson case against a young sailor.

The city of Jacksonville and local Navy and military Veterans have something to be thankful for this holiday season!

The U.S. Navy has pulled the plug on research on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity.

A US Navy hospital ship is expected to head to the Seattle area in the next five to ten days, according to a US defense official. The USNS Mercy is one of two ships being deployed to help respond to the Coronavirus outbreak, though neither will treat patients suffering from the virus. The final destination could always change depending on civilian needs, the official cautioned. The second ship, the USNS Comfort is still weeks away from being deployed to New York. "The Comfort, which is on the East Coast, should be ready in a couple weeks," Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday.

US Navy [Public domain](CNN) - It's been 75 years since the USS Grayback went missing with 80 sailors aboard. Now, an organization that searches for sunken World War II submarines has solved the mystery of where it went down. The Grayback went missing in 1944On January 28, 1944, the Grayback set sail from Pearl Harbor for the East China Sea for its 10th combat patrol. About a month later, the submarine reported sinking two Japanese cargo ships on February 19. Though the Grayback was scheduled to arrive in Midway on March 7, more than three weeks passed without sight of the submarine.

Blue Angels will be in Jacksonville Beach for Sea and Sky Air ShowPublished: October 24, 2019, 10:47 pmThe world-famous U.S. Navy Blue Angels and other military and civilian aerobatic teams will take to the skies of Jacksonville Beach this weekend for the Sea and Sky Air Show.

Ted Quackenbush via Wikimedia Commons(CNN) - Greek police say they have arrested a 65-year-old Lebanese man on the island of Mykonos over the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985 in which a US Navy officer was killed. The suspect, named by Lebanon's foreign ministry as Mohammad Saleh, was stopped on Thursday during a routine security check when his description matched those on a German warrant for his arrest, Greek police told CNN. "A charges d'affaires will head to Athens at 7am on Sunday to Syros island to meet with Saleh and to offer him consular assistance," the Ministry added. Greek police are cooperating with German authorities on the investigation, Chronopoulos said. Hijackers seized control of the Boeing 727 aircraft shortly after it took off from Athens, en route to Rome, on June 14, 1985.

The US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. And while officials said they don't know what the objects are, they're not indulging any hints either. (CNN) - The US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. The objects seen in three clips of declassified military footage are "unidentified aerial phenomena," Navy spokesperson Joe Gradisher confirmed to CNN. The public clips capture just a fraction of the frequent incursions Navy training ranges see, he said.

US Navy boat found in Ireland nearly a year after it went missing during training operations in Norfolk, Virginia. (CNN) - Crew members from a ferry company in Ireland said they made an unexpected discovery with U.S. ties this week when they found a Navy boat floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Intrigued, the ferry company took to social media Tuesday with their discovery. So how did the boat survive over 3,300 miles across the Atlantic Ocean? This is the second time in 15 years that a boat has gone missing at sea, according to Boulay.

NEW YORK - The USS Grunion went missing about a month after it departed on its first war patrol in 1942. It wasn't seen again until the sons of the Grunion's commanding officer began searching for it and found the wreckage in 2007 off the coast of the Aleutian Islands. In October 2018, the Lost 52 Project team returned to the site of the main wreck and found that the ship's bow had slid down a steep volcanic embankment, Taylor said. They put together a 3D scan of the bow and presented it to the family of USS Grunion's Commanding Officer Lt. Cmdr. The Navy says 52 US Pacific Fleet submarines were lost during World War II, and more than 3,500 submariners remain on "eternal patrol."

(CNN) - The US Navy has identified a missing sailor who is believed to have fallen overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier last week while it was operating in the Arabian Sea. Saldana, of San Antonio, was assigned to the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5, part of the Carrier Wing 7, assigned to the Lincoln Carrier strike group. "The search and rescue operations were concluded on July 19, after extensive attempts to locate the Sailor," the US Navy's Fifth Fleet which oversees operations in the region said in a statement. The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group was deployed to the Middle East in May due to a "number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" from Iran, US national security adviser John Bolton said at the time. Prior to that deployment, the US Navy had been without an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf since early April, when the USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group departed to head to the Mediterranean for exercises with the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, according to the US Naval Institute's Fleet and Marine Tracker.

(CNN) - A Venezuelan fighter aircraft recently made an "unsafe approach" to a US Navy aircraft flying in international airspace, "endangering the safety of the crew and jeopardizing" the aircraft's mission, the US military said Sunday. In a Sunday tweet, the Southern Command said the incident happened in international airspace over the Caribbean Sea. As the US aircraft did not comply with such protocols, it was forced to vacate (the Venezuelan airspace)." According to Venezuela, more than 76 US aircraft have attempted to enter Venezuelan airspace in 2019. Last month, a Russian aircraft intercepted a US aircraft flying in international airspace over the Mediterranean Sea three times in just under three hours.

The USS Eagle 2 (PE-2), pictured, was the identical sister ship to the USS Eagle 56 (PE-56). ATLANTIC OCEAN - The USS Eagle PE-56 was supporting Navy training exercises off the coast of Maine when an explosion tore it in half in April 1945. But in June 2018, a team of eight wreck divers working with the Smithsonian Channel finally located it about six miles from Maine's shore. The sinking was originally thought to be an accidentThe USS Eagle PE-56 was the last American warship sunk off the East Coast during World War II, according to the Smithsonian Channel. The reclassification made the USS Eagle PE-56 the Navy's largest single combat loss in New England waters.

In a memo issued last week, Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer highlighted the importance of not taking sides as the election season gets closer. "I want our Sailors, Marines and civilian employees to carry out the obligations of citizenship, including permitted political activities. At the same time, I require our service members and civilian employees to be aware of the difference between permitted and prohibited activities." "For any questions about what activities are permitted, please contact your local legal office," the memo says. The memos come after the White House Military Office asked lower-level US Navy officials about keeping the USS John S. McCain out of view during Trump's visit to Japan in May.