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Here's Your Chance to Live on a Private Island With Views of San Francisco Bay
A charming bed and breakfast on a private island is now looking for a pair of people to run the operation.
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Virginia Capital Removes Its Last City-Owned Confederate Monument
The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — removed its last city-owned Confederate statue on Monday, more than two years after it began to purge itself of what many saw as painful symbols of racial oppression.
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Gunfire Erupts at Virginia Party, Leaving 1 Dead, 7 Hurt
Police say a 20-year-old man is dead and seven other young people are injured after gunfire erupted during a graduation party in central Virginia. Two separate fights between attendees of the mostly outdoor party in Chester were reported shortly before police received a call about shots fired Friday night. Chesterfield County Police gave an update on their investigation Saturday. Police...
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Steelworkers Poised to Strike at Chevron California Refinery
More than 500 workers at a Chevron refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area officially went on strike at Monday morning.
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Confederate Monuments in Virginia Will Likely Go to Black History Museum
Officials from the state of Virginia and the city of Richmond have tentatively decided the future of their now mostly relocated Confederate monuments.
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Time Capsule From 1887 Unboxed by Conservation Experts
On Tuesday, experts in Virginia pulled books, money and other artifacts from the box found in the pedestal of a Robert E. Lee monument.
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Crews Find 2nd Apparent Time Capsule at Lee Statue Site in Virginia
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says crews wrapping up the removal of a giant pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E
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Crews May Have Found 1887 Time Capsule in Lee Statue Base
Crews working to remove the pedestal where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E
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Virginia Governor Announces Removal of Lee Statue Pedestal, Transfer of Land to City
The move comes about a month before the Ralph Northam leaves office and Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin, who has expressed less enthusiasm about the statue’s removal, is sworn in.
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Watch: Emancipation and Freedom Monument Unveiled in Richmond
The Emancipation and Freedom monument was unveiled on Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia.
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Time Capsule Installed in Pedestal Where Robert E. Lee Statue Stood
The capsule’s installation, which a state government official confirmed was completed Saturday morning, contains remembrances of current events, including those related to COVID-19 and protests over racial injustice.
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Robert E. Lee Statue in Virginia Taken Down
Crews removed an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a pedestal in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday.
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Gen. Lee Statue Can Be Removed, Virginia Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled unanimously that the iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E
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Watch: Train Obliterates Semitrailer in Texas
A train split a semitrailer in two after it got stuck on a set of tracks in Richmond, Texas.
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Crews Continue Cleanup After Oil Spill in San Francisco Bay
Crews are working to clean up a petroleum spill in San Francisco Bay near the wharf at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, authorities said Wednesday.
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Black Contractor Braves Threats in Removing Richmond Statues
Change came to Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue this summer at whiplash speed when the city’s mayor invoked emergency powers and ordered the removal of Confederate statues that had towered over the city for around a century.
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George Floyd's Family Gathers in Virginia to Unveil Hologram
The family of George Floyd witnessed the unveiling of a hologram in Virginia Tuesday night, where flickering lights came together to create an image of Floyd’s head and shoulders transposed over the Confederate Gen. Robert E
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Richmond Mayor Orders Removal of Confederate Statues
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney on Wednesday ordered the removal of all Confederate statues on city land. “We have an urgent need to protect the public,” Stoney said in a statement.
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Stonewall Jackson Removed From Richmond's Monument Avenue
A massive statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson has been removed from Richmond, Virginia’s famed Monument Avenue
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Richmond Police Break Up a Crowd to Save Confederate Statue
Police in Virginia’s capital city declared an unlawful assembly and broke up a gathering of protestors accused of attempting to pull down another Confederate monument