CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted away from its place of prominence in Charlottesville on Saturday and carted off to storage, years after its ...

The city was the center of the 2017 "unite the right" rally. Nearly four years after white supremacists marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, protesting a proposal to take down a Confederate ...

A now-removed Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville (via Wikimedia Commons) On Tuesday morning, Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to melt down the Robert E. Lee statue that used to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Charlottesville says a Confederate monument that helped spark a violent white supremacist rally is set to come down Saturday. The city said in a news release Friday afternoon that ...

A statue of the Confederate general that inspired a violent 2017 white supremacist march will be melted down by a local African-American history museum, it’s molten remnants refashioned by Black ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Virginia's highest court has ruled that the city of Charlottesville can take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee that became the focus of ...

RICHMOND, Virginia -- A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will be removed "as soon as possible" from Richmond's Monument Avenue, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Thursday. The statue, ...

BRISTOL, Connecticut -- ESPN broadcaster Robert Lee will not work Virginia's season opener because of recent violence in Charlottesville sparked by the decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen.