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An official says work to remove the final city-owned Confederate monument from Richmond, Virginia, should start this week

An official says work to remove the final city-owned Confederate monument from Richmond, Virginia, should start this week. The city administrative officer says removal of the Gen. A.P. Hill statue

Work to relocate Richmond's final city-owned Confederate monument should start this week after a judge refused a request to delay the removal of the statue of Gen. A.P. Hill from its prominent spot in Virginia's capital, an official said. Richmond Circuit Court Judge David Eugene Cheek Sr. last week rejected a motion from four indirect…

The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — has removed its last public Confederate statue.

The statue in Richmond, which depicts General A.P. Hill, will be given to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia.

Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill's statue was removed Monday morning, Richmond’s deputy chief administrative officer, Robert Steidel, said

The statue of Ambrose P. Hill, a Confederate general in the Civil War, was taken down after a series of court challenges by his indirect descendants.

RICHMOND, Va, (AP) -- Work to relocate Richmond's final city-owned Confederate monument should start this week after a judge refused a request to delay

Work to relocate Richmond's final city-owned Confederate monument should start this week after a judge refused a request to delay the removal of the statue of Gen. A.P. Hill from its prominent spot in Virginia's capital, an official said.

A public records request filed by VPM News revealed efforts by Richmond’s Chief Administrative Officer Lincoln Saunders to change the findings of a 2020 audit that found Richmond’s recent school construction costs higher than Chesterfield County's and the state average.