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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 […]