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A top official in the Virginia city where a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in 2017 has called for renewing discussions about removing two Confederate statues, one of which became the focus of the rally

A new report finds that Virginia State Police did not require training for a certain flight condition that contributed to a fatal helicopter crash during the protests in Charlottesville. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that the findings came out in a National Transportation Safety Board report that was released Wednesday. The crash had killed Lt. H. Jay Cullen, a veteran pilot,…

A white man charged with making racist online threats against a black activist in Virginia is expected to plead guilty next month.

A hearing to determine whether a leading white nationalist from New Hampshire can be released from jail has been continued until next week

A New Hampshire man involved in the “Unite the Right” rally and violence in Charlottesville, North Carolina in 2017 has been arrested by federal authorities, NBC News reports. The FBI’s Boston field office said Tuesday that Christopher Cantwell, 36, was taken into custody in Keene, New Hampshire, after being indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with extortion and…

An Ohio man is receiving $5,000 in a judgment against former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke as part of a lawsuit the man filed against white supremacists and neo-Nazi protesters.

Police in Virginia say that two people have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing a Confederate monument in the city of Charlottesville. Charlottesville police spokesman Tyler Hawn said in an email that the arrests were made early Thursday morning at the statue of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Hawn did not release the individuals’ names but said more information will be released….

An Ohio man plans to appeal his convictions for driving his car into a crowd of counterprotestors during a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia. The Daily Progress, citing online court records, reports that a lawyer for James Alex Fields Jr. filed a notice of appeal Monday. Fields was convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of anti-racism activist Heather…

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It’s been 1 1/2 years since the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, but two men seen on camera assaulting a black man in a parking garage remain unidentified.

An army of Confederate monuments dots Virginia’s landscape but some of those statues could soon start coming down after Election Day gave Democrats control of the General Assembly for the first time in decades.

A Northern Virginia man arrested this week on gun charges is a neo-Nazi who has bragged about committing racially motivated violence, authorities said Friday.

A Virginia judge has blocked the city of Charlottesville’s effort to remove Confederate statues. The Daily Progress reports the three-day civil trial that ended Friday included a judge’s ruling preventing the removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

The mother of a woman killed when a man rammed his car through a crowd protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is suing the convicted murderer for wrongful death. Susan Bro filed a $12 million lawsuit Aug. 30 against the 22-year-old attacker, who is now serving life sentences plus 419 years on numerous convictions. The Daily Progress reports...

A third suspect has been arrested in the killing of an 18-year-old man in Virginia.

Three people are now in custody in the killing of an 18-year-old in Fauquier County, Virginia. The teen’s family and friends gathered Sunday to honor his memory. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to a neighbor who said he was “an amazing kid.”

A second suspect has been arrested in the killing of an 18-year-old man in Virginia, and detectives are looking for a third suspect.

A Virginia teen killed in the front yard of his family’s home. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder says he died Monday night on Old Auburn Road just outside Warrenton.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill to remove a statue of a Confederate general near Judiciary Square.

The widows of two Virginia troopers killed in a helicopter crash during a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville are now suing the state and others over their husbands’ deaths.