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The Emancipation and Freedom monument was unveiled on Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia.

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.

Crews removed an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a pedestal in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled unanimously that the iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

A train split a semitrailer in two after it got stuck on a set of tracks in Richmond, Texas.

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.

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.

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

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.

A massive statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson has been removed from Richmond, Virginia’s famed Monument Avenue

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

A judge in Richmond is expected to hear arguments over whether to extend a temporary prohibition on the removal of a prominent, historic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney had a good excuse for being late to a news conference for presidential hopeful Joe Biden: they were stuck in an elevator.

A Bay Area school district voted Wednesday to name an elementary school after former First Lady Michelle Obama.

Richmond police on Saturday called on the public to help them in the search for a driver who fatally struck a 4-year-old boy and sped away from the scene of the collision.

Twelve former students of a man convicted of sexually abusing them when he was their teacher at a San Francisco Bay Area school will receive a combined $10.9 million to settle a lawsuit against the school, an attorney said.

Gun-rights activists — some making deliberate displays of their military-style rifles — descended on Virginia’s capital city Monday to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation.

State officials and U.S. hate-monitoring groups are warning about the potential for violence ahead of a gun-rights rally in Virginia that’s expected to draw a mix of militias, firearms advocates and white supremacists to Richmond.

The Justice Department has issued a finding that an expired pair of deadlines imposed by Congress decades ago means it’s too late for more states to ratify it now.

Virginia is home to more Confederate memorials than any other state. For many, they are reminders of a painful history. But a new statue in Richmond is designed to offer a different take on who should be atop a monument. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.