Richmond’s last Confederate monument removed and more Va. headlines

The State Capitol. (Ned Oliver/ Virginia Mercury)

• Gov. Glenn Youngkin called a Feb. 21 special election to fill the vacant Virginia congressional seat formerly represented by congressman Donald McEachin, who died last month.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• The city of Richmond removed its last city-owned Confederate monument after a prolonged legal battle over how to handle the remains of Gen. A.P. Hill, who was buried beneath the statue.—Washington Post

• An inmate in a high-security Virginia prison was killed by a fellow inmate, the second such killing at the facility in thirteen months.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• The recently fired superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools was indicted on four misdemeanor counts as part of a grand jury probe into the school system’s handling of a pair of sexual assaults last year. The school division’s spokesman was also indicted.—WTOP

• The Norfolk City Council intervened in a failed land development project involving a rapper alleged to be the son of Norfolk Mayor Kenny Alexander.—Virginian-Pilot

by Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

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