A Virginia youth pastor remained in jail Saturday after being charged in the Thanksgiving night shooting deaths of his wife, stepdaughter and the stepdaughter’s boyfriend, police said. Christopher Gattis, 58, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony, Sergeant P.H. Zoffuto of Chesterfield County Police said in a statement issued Friday.

Governor races in Virginia and New Jersey are the first statewide polls since Trump came to power.

Charlottesville police inserted themselves into an election for prosecutor with a last-minute arrest of a candidate. By Alex Emmons.

DeAndre Harris who was beaten by several white nationalists, is charged with a crime in connection with the attack.

The American Civil Liberties Union announced a policy change that comes after protests by white nationalists and counter-protesters.

The leader of a North Carolina based group associated with the Ku Klux Klan says he is glad that a woman died while taking part in a protest in Charlottesville, VA over the weekend. Heather Heyer was killed when James Allen Fields Jr. allegedly drove a car into a crowd of protesters at high speed, then fled the scene by backing up. Nineteen other people were injured. Fields was among a group of white nationalists protesting the removal of a Confederate statue in a Charlottesville, VA, park.

CORK hurling fans faced criticism yesterday for flying a Confederate flag at Croke Park despite calls not to use it following the violence in Virginia. White supremacists protested at Charlottesville in the US state on Saturday against plans to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee.

State police and national guardsmen watched passively for hours as self-proclaimed Nazis engaged in street battles with counter-protesters. ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson was on the scene and reports that the authorities turned the streets of the city over to groups of militiamen armed with assault rifles.

Between 2004 and 2013, around 4,500 children under the age of 18 got married in the state of Virginia. Of these girls, more than 200 of them were aged 15 or under. Last week, the authorities in the state introduced new legislation that updated rules that had until then made it legal for girls aged 12 or 13 to get married if they had parental consent and were pregnant.

Arrests in Virginia made in a bid to intimidate anti-racist protesters, while far-right groups continue demonstrations. By Creede Newton.

Supporters of the white supremacist group were surrounded by many more counter protesters.

A secretive group of elite power brokers is meeting in the US state of Virginia for closed-door discussions over four days. The Bilderberg Meetings have 131 participants from 21 countries in Europe and North America, the group said in a press release. A couple of top advisers to President Donald Trump are to attend the forum, 30 miles (48km) from the White House.

Conversations with Virginian voters help explain that dreadful 12-per-cent approval rating with a community he pledged to make a priority. By Daniel Dale.

And why it hasn't faced the same controversy as New Orleans or Charlottesville

It was two days after the presidential inauguration, and the Virginia secession convention was in an uproar. The pro-secession minority insisted that Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Address was a declaration of war against the South. But the delegate from rural Franklin County, Jubal Early, nicknamed the “Bad Old Man” for his stubborn attitude and imposing figure, would have none of it.

Shortly before noon on April 3, 1865, a telegraph operator on duty at the War Department in Washington, D.C., received an electrifying message over the wires. “Here is the first message for you in four years from Richmond,” it read.

Gen. George B. McClellan ... started the Peninsula campaign on April 4, 1862, the first step toward fulfilling the promise made to him by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton the previous November: “Now we two will save the country.”

We don’t know exactly when the last sale of enslaved persons occurred in Richmond, Va., known as “the great slave market of the South,” but it must have taken place before April 3, 1865.

On the afternoon of April 1, 1865, over 10,000 Union cavalry soldiers were poised to attack the crossroads at Five Forks, Va.