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Attorney Jarrett Adams is asking the Virginia Court of Appeals to rush a decision on the unusual case of his clients Terrence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne. The two Black men have served more than 20 years in federal prison for the 1998 murder of Alan Gibson, a Waverly, Virginia police officer - despite a federal jury finding them “not guilty” of the crime.

Four years ago, hundreds of people - mostly white men - rallied in Charlottesville to protest the planned removal of Confederate monuments and spread white supremacist propaganda. The rally, called Unite the Right, brought a throng of known hate groups from around the country. Now a lawsuit alleging they planned the violence that ensued heads to a jury.

Attorneys for Charlottesville residents who sued the white nationalist organizers of the deadly Unite the Right rally will soon wrap up their case. Meanwhile, one defendant's attorney told VPM they’re worried they’re running out of time to make theirs.

It’s week two of the month-long trial against white nationalists who planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally. Testimony has been marked by defendants frequently digressing into conspiracy theories and lodging blame at plaintiffs and protesters on the left for the violence in Charlottesville.

Opening arguments began today in the civil trial against white nationalists who planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The long-awaited trial is four years in the making, held up by the pandemic and the struggle to collect evidence from unwilling defendants.

Jurors will be asked to consider a federal lawsuit that aims to take down the far-right groups financially and bars them from planning future violent events.

Former President Barack Obama was in Richmond Saturday throwing his support behind Terry McAuliffe’s campaign.

In a federal lawsuit filed in 2017, Charlottesville-area residents accuse leaders of far-right and white nationalist groups of coordinating efforts to carry out violence in the city.

Kristen Peck does microbladed eyebrows, a method of tattooing that creates a 3D effect with individual hair strokes. Alongside eyebrows, permanent lip and eyeliner, she also restores areolas for people who’ve had their breasts removed.

Criminal justice reform advocates say Republican political candidates are deploying misleading crime data to discount progress in the commonwealth, while pointing to data that shows most Virginians regardless of party identification feel safer.