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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – The future of Portsmouth’s Confederate monument remains unclear. City Council members voted “yes” to moving money for the removal of the monument in Olde Towne — but when that will happen is still up in the air. This comes after a candidate running for mayor offered to remove the monument for […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — A Richmond-based judge ruled Monday that Portsmouth Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephanie Morales was not a witness in the June incident at the city’s Confederate monument, a major victory for State Senator Louise Lucas and other prominent Black leaders charged in the monument destruction case. Judge Claire Cardwell ruled Morales can’t be subpoenaed to […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Pilot Scott Abbott cranked up Chopper 10 as our team headed out to bring you news from the sky this week. In Chesapeake, a firefighter was injured while fighting an early morning church fire in the Fentress area. Officials say they were notified Friday just after 2 a.m. for a fire […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — A Virginia senator is calling for the immediate firing of the Portsmouth police chief following a protest that resulted in a person being hospitalized with serious injuries and the destruction of a Confederate monument. Sen. Louise Lucas told 10 On Your Side that she believes Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene “abdicated […]

The Chopper 10 crew had another busy week over the skies of Hampton Roads. Trump Boat Parade There was no Harborfest this past weekend or a Parade of Sail, but there was a Trump Boat parade. RELATED: Over 100 boats hit the Elizabeth River to support Trump’s re-election campaign Hundreds of boats were seen on […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — At the next council meeting, one Portsmouth city councilman hopes to again get the ball rolling on relocating the city’s Confederate monument. In recent years, calls have grown louder from civil rights advocates for the removal of a 54-foot structure from the middle of Old Towne. Groups such as the Portsmouth […]

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — The Confederate monument in Newport News will soon be removed from its location outside the Warwick County Courthouse. Newport News City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday night to relocate the monument following a public hearing. The lone dissenting vote was Councilwoman Patricia Woodbury, who said she does not support removing the […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — A judge dismissed two charges against Portsmouth Vice Mayor Lisa Lucas-Burke that would have forced her to forfeit her title as vice mayor if she was convicted. I In a brief hearing Judge Robert Carter, who is a retired Chesapeake judge, agreed with defense attorney Michael Massie who argued Lucas-Burke is […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Norfolk city officials say the remaining portions of the 113-year-old, 80-foot-tall Confederate monument will be removed Sunday. According to officials, the pillars were “successfully removed” Saturday and the removal of the remaining portions began Sunday morning. The Confederate solider at the top of the monument, Johnny Reb, was removed last week after a protester […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Portsmouth Vice Mayor Lisa Lucas-Burke was served a summons on Monday morning after a Portsmouth resident filed a criminal complaint against her in connection to the city’s Confederate monument controversy. Lucas-Burke, the daughter of State Sen. Louise Lucas, faces two class 3 misdemeanor charges in the case. Portsmouth resident Thomas Dubois […]

Over the last week, statues and confederate monuments have been vandalized, knocked over and even removed across the state.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — 55-year old LaVoris Pace, who has 23 years of experience in municipal affairs, has been spending the last few weeks meeting with school officials, the sheriff, police officials and civic leaders. Pace is trying to build bridges in the city; Mayor John Rowe earlier this month said Portsmouth was suffering from […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — In 1905, 40 years after the end of the Civil War, former Confederate soldiers and family members gathered outside the Princess Anne County Courthouse for the unveiling of a monument. A monument built to honor those who fought and lost a bloody battle against their own country in the war that […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Confederate monuments mean different things to people. Some say it honors their ancestors who fought on the side of the Confederate states during the Civil War, while others claim it reminds them of not only the oppression those Confederate states perpetrated against their ancestors but the struggle to get equal rights […]

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — The Southern Christian Leadership Conference of the Virginia Unit (SCLC) is once again calling on the City of Newport News to relocate its Confederate monument in the Denbigh area of the city. The group sent the letter to Mayor McKinley Price and City Council members last week, on the same […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Sen. Mark Warner (D) and challenger Dr. Daniel Gade (R) took part in their second debate in the race for Virginia senate on Saturday night. The debate took place in the L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center at Norfolk State University. The political debate was the first in NSU’s history, and […]

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — Across the state, Confederate monuments are being destroyed, torn down, and vandalized — now in Newport News, a group of city workers has covered the Denbigh monument with tarps. The covering comes after a man was severely injured in Portsmouth on Wednesday night when protesters pulled a monument off its […]

App users: Click here to watch live coverage. HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Norfolk’s 113-year-old “Johnny Reb” Confederate statue was swiftly taken down atop of its pedestal downtown in Norfolk on Friday morning, the first step in the process to remove the entire monument. It came less than 48 hours after protesters dismantled the Confederate […]

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — It’s easy to miss if you are driving or even walking around the eastern edge of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center. Just outside building 20, the former courthouse building, a Confederate statue stands a few yards from the intersection of Princess Anne Road and North Landing Road near an automotive […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Portsmouth resident Thomas Dubois filed a criminal complaint on Sunday afternoon against Vice Mayor Lisa Lucas-Burke. Dubois says he filed two class 3 misdemeanor charges against her. He believes Lucas-Burke violated a section in the city code when she called for Portsmouth Chief Angela Greene to be fired over the recent charges Greene […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — About 250 people gathered outside Portsmouth City Hall Friday evening for a rally in support of Sen. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth), the target of a petition to remove her from office following the damage last week to the city’s Confederate monument. The program included several civic and religious leaders as Lucas stood […]

Weekdays at 11:30 a.m. EST, Newsfeed Now will be streaming the top stories in the U.S. utilizing our newsrooms across the country. If you miss the live report, you’ll be able to see a replay minutes after the stream ends. (NEXSTAR) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration will “not even consider” changing […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Some members of an activist group are calling for the resignation of Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene and a state police investigation after police took out felony charges against more than a dozen high-profile African American community members, including State Sen. Louise Lucas, public defenders, NAACP leaders and a Portsmouth School […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia Sen. L. Louise Lucas has filed a $20.7-million defamation lawsuit against an attorney who organized a petition for her recall. In a suit filed Wednesday, it is alleged that Tim Anderson, an attorney based in Virginia Beach, “knew … information he stated involving Lucas was untrue at the time he […]

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A majority of City Council is in favor of beginning the process to relocate the Confederate monument outside Warwick Courthouse. The seven-member council hasn’t taken an official vote, but indicated to City Manager Cynthia Rohlf on Tuesday that they would like a public hearing scheduled on the topic as soon […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Early Friday morning, crews with the City of Norfolk removed the Confederate statue on top of the downtown Confederate monument, but not before the monument was tagged with spray paint Thursday night. Crews removed most of the spray paint after removing the statue but by Friday night, protesters spray-painted the monument […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — With a population of around 96,000, Portsmouth is one of Hampton Roads’ smallest cities with some of its biggest problems. The city is caught in what some are calling a crisis in leadership. The city manager and city attorney positions are open and the police chief has been placed on leave. […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The back and forth continues in Portsmouth over what happened the night demonstrators painted and tore pieces off the city’s Confederate monument. Mayor John Rowe shared a letter with 10 On Your Side on Friday that he sent to the City Council. The letter states that Rowe has seen police body […]

The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world, including Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and Belgium’s King Leopold II. Protests and, in some cases, acts of vandalism have taken place in […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The rain didn’t stop several dozen people from marching against racial injustice in Portsmouth Tuesday. They walked from the City Jail to the Confederate monument on High Street in Olde Towne. Marchers that were physically able to took a knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds — the amount of time […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The rest of the 113-year-old Confederate monument in Norfolk is coming down this week in an effort to keep the public safe. The City of Norfolk announced the move Monday night. Crews started work around 6 a.m. Tuesday. The Confederate soldier at the top of the 80-foot-tall monument, Johnny Reb, was […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The Portsmouth police chief is defending her involvement in the investigation of the June 10 protest at the Confederate monument following allegations that she said she had a conflict of interest. Chief Angela Greene announced charges against 14 high-profile community members — including state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, local NAACP leaders […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Several hundred people gathered for a march through the City of Norfolk Saturday afternoon and then through Portsmouth on Saturday evening in protest of the death of George Floyd — a black man killed by a Minneapolis Police officer earlier this week. Demonstrators started their march at 2 p.m. after a […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The images have been broadcast across the country. Protesters in Portsmouth Wednesday night spray-painted much of the Confederate monument and toppled a statue. When the statue fell, it landed on a man causing serious injuries. Questions have been raised about why the Portsmouth Police Department failed to stop the vandalism. Before […]

RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — The Virginia Senate passed a bill 21-17 Wednesday that would allow localities to have more control over moving war memorials, including Confederate monuments. The bill, HB 1537, will now go back to the House for review. Current state law prevents the removal of war memorials. It was first enacted in 1904 […]

The Virginia Senate has passed a bill that would give local governments control over war memorials, allowing for the relocation of Confederate monuments.

Virginians will wake up in July with fewer coronavirus restrictions and new laws to learn.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginians will wake up in July with fewer coronavirus restrictions and new laws to learn. Newly empowered Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly began the 2020 session with an ambitious legislative agenda, including a push to pass several gun-control bills in the wake of the Virginia Beach mass shooting, social equity legislation, criminal justice […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Raising awareness for racial injustice. That’s what Chris Green’s family says he wanted to do at Wednesday night’s protest in Olde Towne Portsmouth. “This is something he’s always wanted to do,” said his sister Leslie Perkins. Perkins says as protesters were trying to taking down one of the soldier statues at the confederate […]

To watch the House of Delegates livestream click here. To watch the State Senate livestream click here. RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — The Virginia General Assembly’s August special session dealing with budget shortfalls due to the coronavirus pandemic, criminal justice reform and policing policies convened on Tuesday. Due to COVID-19, state leaders are not at the Virginia State Capitol building. […]

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.

TOP OF THE HOUR: — Officer charged in George Floyd’s death posts bail. — George Floyd’s brother gives emotional testimony on Capitol Hill. — Museums interested in preserving artifacts from protests in nation’s capital. ___ ST. PAUL, Minn. — Protesters have pulled down a statute of Christopher Columbus outside the Minnesota State Capitol. A rope […]

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Missing the classroom and learning from the streets. Hampton Roads resident “J-Z” Jonathan Zur has a gift of gab, but you won’t hear him on any rap albums. His talents are in getting other people to talk — diverse groups — to discover what we have in common. At the […]

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) – As we continue an important dialogue on race, equality, and policing in America, 10 On Your Side spoke to three local community leaders who represent two of the most well-known organizations at the forefront of this current push for change. And while the approach may be different for the NAACP […]

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Protests are continuing across Hampton Roads, more than two weeks after the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis Police. Here’s the rundown on what’s happening Saturday: 5 p.m. Protesters are gearing for a peaceful protest in the Bayside area in Virginia Beach. Organized by a 17-year-old […]

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Residents in Hampton Roads are getting ready for another day of protests and demonstrations across the area. Groups are protesting across America following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes. Here is the […]

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation is co-sponsoring 6 events along with Virginia Humanities in October and November.

A circuit court judge has ruled that the city cannot claim ownership of the Confederate statue located downtown, making it more difficult to move.

LIVE BLOG: 8:30 p.m. Virginia Beach has closed its streets in Town Center except for Market Street and Columbus Street. The closures are supposed to help enforce the governor’s curfew order with a group of 50 demonstrators. 8 p.m. Various demonstrations began Monday evening around Hampton Roads, including in Suffolk and Norfolk. RELATED: LIVE UPDATES: […]