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Donald Trump Slammed For Rally In Virginia That Broke State’s Coronavirus Restrictions

Donald Trump Slammed For Rally In Virginia That Broke State’s Coronavirus Restrictions

Donald Trump is coming under fire for a campaign rally in Virginia that was held against the recommendations of public health experts and against the state’s order set in place to slow the spread of coronavirus. The Richmond rally kicked off on Friday night with crowds of supporters greeting the president, many of them packed […]

4y ago

Charlottesville, Virginia, Removes Confederate Statue As Crowd Cheers

Charlottesville, Virginia, Removes Confederate Statue As Crowd Cheers

Work crews removed a century-old statue of a Confederate soldier from in front of the courthouse in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday morning as crowds cheered and danced, WTOP-TV reported. Ever since the death of George Floyd on May 25, communities across the country have reckoned with what to do about statues honoring men who fought […]

4y ago

‘Remember The Titans’ School T.C. Williams High Reckons With Racism Of Its Namesake

‘Remember The Titans’ School T.C. Williams High Reckons With Racism Of Its Namesake

T.C. Williams High School, the Virginia institution featured in the 2000 film Remember The Titans, is facing calls to change its name in light of its namesake’s racist views, The Washington Post reported. The film, for those not familiar, tells the true-life story of the 1971 football season at the Alexandria school. Though the film […]

4y ago

Virginia Cop Charles Hewitt, Who Told Black Driver ‘You’re Going To Get Your A** Whooped,’ Faces Investigation

Virginia Cop Charles Hewitt, Who Told Black Driver ‘You’re Going To Get Your A** Whooped,’ Faces Investigation

Virginia State Trooper Charles Hewitt, who was seen in a viral video recorded last year threatening a Black driver and telling the man “You’re going to get your a** whooped,” before forcefully removing the man from his car, is now facing an investigation. Though the incident seen in the footage took place in April 2019, […]

4y ago

Richmond, Virginia, Mayor Orders Immediate Removal Of All Confederate Monuments In The City

Richmond, Virginia, Mayor Orders Immediate Removal Of All Confederate Monuments In The City

Richmond, Virginia, Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues in the city, in part because of concerns about protesters being injured in trying to forcibly topple them, The Spokesman reported. The Virginia city was, for a period of time, the capitol city of the Confederate States of America, and monuments to […]

4y ago

Richmond, Virginia Police Declare ‘Unlawful Assembly,’ Move Protesters Keen On Tearing Down Confederate Statue

Richmond, Virginia Police Declare ‘Unlawful Assembly,’ Move Protesters Keen On Tearing Down Confederate Statue

Police in Richmond, Virginia declared an “unlawful assembly” on Sunday night and cleared away a crowd of protesters who appeared to be planning to tear down a statue of a Confederate general in the city, ABC News reported. Protesters had converged on the city’s monument to James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart, who served as a […]

4y ago

During Tulsa Rally, Donald Trump Slams ‘The Unhinged Left-Wing Mob’ For Tearing Down Confederate Monuments

During Tulsa Rally, Donald Trump Slams ‘The Unhinged Left-Wing Mob’ For Tearing Down Confederate Monuments

During his “Keep America Great” rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night, U.S. President Donald Trump slammed people he called “the unhinged left-wing mob” for tearing down Confederate monuments around the country, CNN reported. He told supporters that the people who sought to remove these monuments were “trying to vandalize our history, desecrate our monuments, […]

4y ago

Virginia Sheriff Apologizes To Black Pastor Who Called 911 After He Was Assaulted, Got Arrested Instead

Virginia Sheriff Apologizes To Black Pastor Who Called 911 After He Was Assaulted, Got Arrested Instead

A Virginia sheriff has issued an apology to a black pastor who called police for help after he was allegedly assaulted by members of a white family — only to have police arrest him instead and let the attackers go free. As NBC News reported, the incident happened on June 1 when pastor Leon McCray […]

4y ago

Protester Seriously Hurt In Portsmouth, Virginia, As Confederate Statue Is Torn Down Into Crowd Of People

Protester Seriously Hurt In Portsmouth, Virginia, As Confederate Statue Is Torn Down Into Crowd Of People

A protester in Portsmouth, Virginia, was seriously injured after a Confederate statue was torn down into a crowd of people, a report claims. The incident happened on Wednesday night as demonstrators gathered around a Confederate monument in the city and aimed to tear it down. Video from the scene showed protesters tying ropes around the […]

4y ago

Protesters In Richmond Tear Down Statue Of Former Confederate Army General, Urinate On It

Protesters In Richmond Tear Down Statue Of Former Confederate Army General, Urinate On It

A group of protesters in Richmond, Virginia, toppled a statue of a Confederate general, reportedly splashing it with red paint and urinating on it after it had been torn to the ground. As The Associated Press reported, the small group of protesters targeted the statue of Gen. Williams Carter Wickham in the city that once […]

4y ago

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Announces Confederate Statue In Richmond Will Be Removed

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Announces Confederate Statue In Richmond Will Be Removed

During a press conference on Thursday, Virginia’s Gov. Ralph Northam announced that a famous Confederate statue in Richmond, Virginia, would be taken down, ABC News reported. The statue is of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and it stands as a monument to the Confederacy in the town that was its capital during the Civil War. […]

4y ago

Virginia Teen Gets Stuck In Washing Machine During A Game Of Hide-And-Seek

Virginia Teen Gets Stuck In Washing Machine During A Game Of Hide-And-Seek

Virginia teenager Amari Dancy got stuck inside of a washing machine during a family game of hide-and-seek on Sunday, April 19. The 18-year-old had to be rescued by the fire department, reports NBC News. Amari was playing hide-and-seek with some of her younger relatives. She told reporters she had already hidden in some of the […]

4y ago

A 95-Year-Old Man Has Been Paid With Coffee Instead Of Money At 7-Eleven For 30 Years

A 95-Year-Old Man Has Been Paid With Coffee Instead Of Money At 7-Eleven For 30 Years

A 95-year-old man from Fisherville, Virginia, named Orin Gilbert Jr. has been paid with nothing but coffee and bananas while working at 7-Eleven for the past 30 years, reports USA Today. Over the past few decades, Gilbert has arrived almost every day to the 7-Eleven in Fisherville to help out the employees. According to the […]

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Caitlin Poytress, Former Virginia School Aide, Gets 5 Years For Stealing Kids’ Adderall

Caitlin Poytress, Former Virginia School Aide, Gets 5 Years For Stealing Kids’ Adderall

A former Virginia school aide has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing children’s prescription medication and replacing the drugs with over-the-counter medicines, possibly in order to feed her drug habit, Roanoke’s WSET-TV reports. Until May of 2019, Caitlin Poytress had been a teacher’s aide at Clover Hill Elementary School in Chesterfield County. […]

4y ago

Teen Goes Viral After Baking Cookies To Apologize For Hitting A Stranger’s Mailbox

Teen Goes Viral After Baking Cookies To Apologize For Hitting A Stranger’s Mailbox

A teenage driver from Lincoln, Nebraska is receiving praise for a heartwarming good deed. The 16-year-old new driver, Owen Sullivan, was driving on ice and snow when he accidentally struck a stranger’s mailbox. Instead of just driving away as he could have easily done, he took the time to go up to the house, own […]

4y ago

Joe Biden Only Democrat Leading Donald Trump In 2 Key Southern States, Bernie Sanders Trails Badly, Poll Shows

Joe Biden Only Democrat Leading Donald Trump In 2 Key Southern States, Bernie Sanders Trails Badly, Poll Shows

As nationwide polls continue to show Democrat Joe Biden holding a significant lead over Donald Trump in a one-on-one 2020 presidential election matchup, a new poll also shows that Biden may be the only Democrat who can defeat Trump in two Southern states that carry a combined 42 Electoral College votes. According to a new […]

4y ago

Virginia School District To Allow Students One Day Off Per Year To Attend Protests, Other ‘Civic Activities’

Virginia School District To Allow Students One Day Off Per Year To Attend Protests, Other ‘Civic Activities’

A Virginia school district has instituted a plan that will give students one excused absence per year in order to participate in protests or other “civic activities,” ABC News reports. Since conservative kids are more likely to stay in school and less likely to attend protests, critics say the plan unfairly benefits liberal kids. Ryan […]

5y ago

Robert E. Lee Statue In Charlottesville Tagged With ‘Impeach Trump’ And ‘This Is Racist’ On Thanksgiving Night

Robert E. Lee Statue In Charlottesville Tagged With ‘Impeach Trump’ And ‘This Is Racist’ On Thanksgiving Night

A notorious statue honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, was tagged with graffiti on Thanksgiving night that took aim at President Donald Trump. As WTVR reported, at some point in the evening hours on Thursday, someone spray-painted the words “Impeach Trump” and “This is Racist” onto the Confederate statue. The graffiti was […]

5y ago

Juli Briskman, Woman Who Flipped Off Donald Trump’s Motorcade, Wins Election In Virginia

Juli Briskman, Woman Who Flipped Off Donald Trump’s Motorcade, Wins Election In Virginia

Juli Briskman, the Virginia woman who famously flipped off Donald Trump’s motorcade as it rolled through her town, and lost her job for it, has won a seat on her county’s board, Patch reports. Briskman ran as a Democrat and narrowly defeated her opponent, incumbent Republican Suzanne Volpe, by a few hundred votes out of […]

5y ago

Virginia 2019 Election Live Results: Where To Find Up-To-Date Totals On Critical Statewide Races

Virginia 2019 Election Live Results: Where To Find Up-To-Date Totals On Critical Statewide Races

Virginia voters will take to the polls on Tuesday for elections that have captured some national attention, setting up a battle between the current and former presidents and potentially giving a preview of next year’s presidential election. Though there may be no major federal races on the ballot, Virginia voters will be determining control of […]

5y ago

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