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Navy adds $57 million to pay for repair of damaged destroyer

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) – The U.S. Navy is adding another $57 million to what it’s paying a Mississippi shipyard to repair a destroyer damaged in a June collision that killed seven sailors. The additional contract […]

Ray Mabus, Navy Secretary and former Mississippi governor, racks up $4.7 million travel bill

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy secretary has spent more than a full year of his five-year tenure on overseas travel, racking up more than 930,000 miles on trips that cost taxpayers more than $4.7 million. […]