“I am directing the Department of General Services to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee as soon as possible,” Gov. Ralph Northam declared at a news conference Thursday, flanked by a Lee descendant, ...

A monument honoring the abolition of slavery was dedicated in Richmond, Virginia, just two miles from where a hulking statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once prominently stood.

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Thursday that one of the country’s premier monuments to the Confederacy, a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee along Richmond’s prominent Monument Avenue, ...

*A Virginia judge has ordered a 10-day halt to Governor Ralph Northam’s plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue. Northam announced on June 4 that the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond judge has sided with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam in the legal battle to remove the Robert E. Lee statue from Monument Avenue, dissolving an injunction Tuesday that ...

The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the state can remove a large statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from the city of Richmond's "Monument Avenue." Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ...

Richmond’s iconic but divisive Robert E. Lee monument is coming down soon after the last obstacles to removal were cleared Thursday by two unanimous Virginia Supreme Court opinions. The justices ...

Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Robert E. Lee monument were ordered to disperse just before 11:30 p.m. when police declared an unlawful assembly. After chanting at police, most of the ...

Richmond police declared an unlawful assembly at the Lee monument just before 11:30 Wednesday night and ordered hundreds of gathered protesters to disperse. After chanting at police, most of the ...