Heather Mongilio

Spicer served on the Naval Academy Board of Visitors until last Wednesday when President Joe Biden asked for the resignation of 18 Trump-appointed members of the service academy boards. If they did not resign, their positions would be terminated.

Saturday will mark 20 years since hijackers took control of four planes, crashing two into the Twin Towers in New York and one into the Pentagon. A fourth, headed for D.C., crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after the passengers of flight United 93 fought back.

The Capital spoke to Anne Arundel residents and Naval Academy graduates about the events of Sept. 11 and how it affected their lives and careers.

Midshipman First Class A.J. Panik’s flag was one of the 14 larger flags, each representing one of the Naval Academy graduates who lost their lives Sept. 11. Panik’s, in particular, honored Lt. Jonas Panik, a 1997 graduate and the midshipman’s uncle.

Former Donald Trump press secretary Sean Spicer was among several people asked to resign from the Naval Academy Board of Visitors, as President Joe Biden removes Trump appointees from service academy advisory boards.

The Naming Commission, the federal task force examining Confederate symbols on military installations, is seeking recommendations for new names for installations and ships that could be renamed.

A Baltimore-based electric company is suing Liberty Mutual Insurance Company over unpaid costs from work on the Naval Academy’s Rickover Hall.

The four honorees are the 2020 recipients, originally scheduled to be honored in March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the country. They’ll be honored at a ceremony Thursday.

The Naval Academy and Superintendent Vice Adm. Sean Buck are among defendants in a new case calling for the boards of visitors at the service academies to be restored.

The Naval Academy Class of 2023 completed the Herndon Climb in 3 hours and 39 seconds Sunday.

Nearly 20 midshipmen were separated after a Naval Academy investigation found they cheated on a December 2020 physics exam.

First-class midshipmen will return to the Naval Academy by 6 p.m. Wednesday, while midshipmen in their second and third years at the academy are due to return by 4 p.m. Thursday, academy spokesperson Cmdr. Alana Garas said in an email.

The Herndon Climb is back, for the second time in 2021.

Instead of attending the academy to learn the mission, Col. James P. McDonough, who goes by J.P., is now one of the people in charge of fulfilling it as the 89th commandant of the Brigade of Midshipmen.

Fair Winds Capital Investments purchased the property Thursday, the alumni association announced Friday in a press release. The association is in the process of building a new center across from the Max Bishop Stadium on King George Street.