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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Plans to rename the Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge to Belvidere Bridge have been scrapped after opposition over the replacement’s link to a plantation mansion in Richmond ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond councilwoman submitted a proposal calling on the renaming of the Lee Bridge Tuesday. 5th District City Councilwoman Stephanie Lynch wrote on Facebook that she ...
Richmond, who was Richmond’s 9th District City Councilman from 2017 until 2024. “S--- didn’t change when they came down.” ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Authorities say the ‘public safety incident’ inside the amphitheater area of the Virginia War Memorial that shut down a portion of the Robert E. Lee Bridge Monday ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- Police have identified a man killed on the Lee Bridge in downtown Richmond as 61-year-old Ellis Green, Jr. Green was killed in a Tuesday afternoon crash on the bridge over the ...
Lee Memorial Bridge ... In July 1935, the city negotiated with the Richmond Bridge Corporation and the Virginia Electric and Power Company (V.E.P.C.O) to work out a payment plan.
RICHMOND, Va. — The Richmond Fire Department investigated an incident involving a train near the Lee Bridge in downtown Richmond. Someone called 911 saying a train car was leaking. Crews ...
RICHMOND, Va. – The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has towered over this Virginia city for more than 100 years will be removed "as soon as possible," Gov. Ralph Northam ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Over 130 years after being buried in the Robert E. Lee Monument’s pedestal, the contents of a time capsule were unveiled today at the Virginia Department of Historic ...
Lee statue in Richmond Va,, and the new time capsule that will be buried near the monument's old pedestal. For over 100 years, the towering figure of Robert E. Lee loomed large over Monument ...