A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and several busts from the same era were taken out of a room in the Virginia state Capitol Thursday night at the direction of House Speaker Eileen Filler ...

RICHMOND — Workers wielding power tools and huge rolls of bubble wrap carted a life-size statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee and busts of seven of his Confederate colleagues out of the Virginia Capitol ...

The statue of Robert E. Lee and busts of others who fought for or governed the Confederacy were quietly removed from the Virginia State Capitol Thursday night and early Friday ...