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WASHINGTON (AP) — Not long after noon on Feb. 6, President Donald Trump strode into the elegant East Room of the White House. The night before, his impeachment trial had ended with acquittal in the Republican-controlled Senate. It was time to gloat and settle scores. “It was evil,” Trump said of the attempt to end […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) — 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) – 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 […]

UPDATE 11 p.m. June 23: Portsmouth City Council approved $250,000 to cover the cost of moving the monument during a meeting Tuesday night, but did not decide whether to let Danny Meeks move the monument at his own expense. Read more about that meeting here. PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Moving the Confederate monument in Portsmouth […]

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 […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The City of Portsmouth has placed a temporary fence around the Confederate monument downtown. The safety measures come after numerous Confederate statues across the state have been removed, covered, vandalized, or torn down. Additionally, in Portsmouth, a man was severely injured while the monument was torn down during protests last week. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The Virginia Beach city manager has said he intends to initiate the process to move or alter the city’s Confederate monument as soon as possible. Acting City Manager Tom Leahy sent a letter to City Council Friday saying he intended to start the process of covering, removing, relocating or contextualizing […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Norfolk Mayor Kenny Alexander said Thursday evening the city’s Confederate statue will be removed within the next 24 hours. The announcement came just one day after a protester in Portsmouth was seriously injured by a falling Confederate soldier statue Wednesday night. “Our prayers are with the City of Portsmouth,” Alexander said. […]

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 […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Norfolk Mayor Kenny Alexander announced Thursday night that the confederate monument downtown would be removed within 24 hours, weather permitting. To his word, crews arrived that very night to begin the dismantling process. Cranes moved in to remove the statue on top of the monument and had completed the removal by […]

RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — At Thursday’s briefing, Gov. Northam urged Virginians to take down Confederate monuments “the right way,” announced reopening plans for Virginia’s colleges and shared his thoughts on defunding the police. Highlights from the press conference: On Portsmouth Confederate incident, other statues recently toppled Gov. Northam started by discussing recent moves by protesters […]

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 […]

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HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Communities across the nation continue to hold demonstrations in remembrance of George Floyd and to bring awareness to racial injustice. Portsmouth City Council held a virtual meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday to discuss the Confederate monument, ahead of the Black Lives Matter protest scheduled for 7:57 p.m. Read more about the […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Mayor John Rowe says Portsmouth Police made the correct call not to act as protesters vandalized the downtown Confederate monument Wednesday night. LIVE BLOG: GoFundMe set up for man severely injured during Portsmouth Confederate monument demonstration; State Police investigating incident “Our police department made the right choice – confine the vandalism […]

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 […]

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 […]

EDITOR’s NOTE: Black Lives Matter 757 organized a protest at the Confederate monument starting at 7:57 p.m. Wednesday. During the demonstration, protesters broke off pieces of the monument, threw paint and set it on fire. It came to an end after one of the soldier statues toppled over and injured a male at the protest. […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Protesters in Portsmouth spray painted the Confederate monument in the city Wednesday, decapitated all four soldier statues and dismantled other parts. A man was seriously hurt when one of the statues toppled. The question about who owns the monument has been a major roadblock in the city’s years-long quest to remove […]

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 […]

EDITOR’s NOTE: Black Lives Matter 757 organized a protest at the Confederate monument starting at 7:57 p.m. Wednesday. During the demonstration, protesters broke off pieces of the monument, threw paint and set it on fire. It came to an end after one of the soldier statues toppled over and injured a male at the protest. […]

NOTE: Black Lives Matter 757 is scheduled to have a protest beginning at 7:57 p.m. at the Confederate monument in Portsmouth Wednesday. Stay with WAVY News’ Wednesday LIVE BLOG for updates. PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Portsmouth’s Confederate monument was covered in spray paint Wednesday afternoon, hours after two Portsmouth NAACP leaders, including chapter president James […]

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 […]

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The initiative to possibly move Portsmouth’s 54-foot-tall Confederate monument out of its prominent location in Olde Towne is gaining speed. Portsmouth City Council met via video call Tuesday night. At the end of the meeting, Mayor John Rowe proposed a plan to the council on how they could quickly start to […]

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 […]

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Hampton Roads residents are gearing up for another day of demonstrations and peaceful marches in remembrance of George Floyd and to bring awareness for racial injustice. Here is the timeline of events in Hampton Roads Tuesday: 11 p.m. — Following a City Council meeting Tuesday night — during which members […]

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 […]

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — It’s been a week and a half since George Floyd died while in custody of Minneapolis Police. Protests — many peaceful, some violent — continue across the country in the wake of his death. In Hampton Roads, demonstrations have continued this week. Most of them were peaceful, save for a […]

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 […]

6:30 p.m. — There is at least one protest in Norfolk Wednesday evening. WAVY viewers and staff report seeing protesters on Monticello Avenue and Colley Avenue. Video taken on Monticello Avenue showed dozens of people walking down the road shouting “shut it down” and “no justice, no peace.” Around 8 p.m. videos taken by WAVY’s […]

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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.

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.