A trial has begun for a man charged with using a flaming torch to intimidate counterprotesters during a gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, seven years ago.

A grand jury in Virginia has indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches with the intent to intimidate during a rally at the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville nearly six years ago.

A federal judge has slashed millions of dollars from the damages a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay for their role in the violence that erupted during the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

Nine people who sued white nationalist leaders and organizations over the violence at a deadly rally in Charlottesville in 2017 won a $26 million judgment for the injuries and trauma they endured.

A jury has ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay $26 million in damages over violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

A jury has completed the first day of deliberations in a civil trial of white nationalists accused of conspiring to commit racially motivated violence at the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

Lawyers for nine people hurt during the “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville have told a jury that white nationalists “planned, executed and then celebrated” racially motivated violence that left one counterprotester dead and dozens more injured.

A woman who was pushed to safety as a car slammed into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has recounted a scene of “complete terror."

Jurors have heard opening statements in a civil lawsuit that accuses white nationalists of conspiring to commit violence at the “Unite the Right” demonstrations in Charlottesville in 2017.

- A jury has been seated in a civil trial to determine whether white nationalists who planned the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, will be held responsible for the violence that erupted.

Jury selection has begun at a civil trial in Charlottesville, Virginia to determine whether white nationalists who planned the so-called “Unite the Right” rally will be held responsible for the violence that erupted.

But by the final, frenetic sprint of the 2020 race, the world had long peered into the country's darkest corners and seen a battered and haunted image staring back. The presidency and control of the Senate are in the balance, but for many, there was something even more urgent. “Tuesday is our big deal as a country!” Trump said on Sunday, as he braved flurries and a stiff wind chill in Michigan. In Texas, Trump supporters in cars and trucks swarmed around a Biden campaign bus at high speed on a highway. ___Associated Press writers Alex Jaffe traveling with Biden, Zeke Miller with Trump, and Kathleen Ronayne with Harris contributed to this report.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The mother of a woman killed when a man rammed his car through a crowd protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is suing the convicted murderer for wrongful death. Susan Bro filed a $12 million lawsuit Aug. 30 against 22-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., who is now serving life sentences plus 419 years on numerous convictions. The Daily Progress reports Thursday that Bro said she doesn't want Fields' "blood money." She just wants to make sure he can't profit from selling the rights to his story or publishing a memoir. Fields is an avowed white supremacist who killed Heather Heyer and injured dozens more when he plowed his car through a throng of people protesting the "Unite the Right" rally in August 2017.

(CNN) - The man who plowed his car through a crowd of counterprotesters at a "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville two years ago, leaving a woman dead, was sentenced to life in prison by a Virginia state judge Monday. A federal judge also gave James Alex Fields Jr., 22, a life sentence in June. Fields pleaded guilty in March to 29 federal hate crimes as part of an agreement that eliminated the death penalty as possible punishment. Before his federal sentencing in June, Fields told the judge he wanted to apologize. "We're not the ones who need to be careful," Fields responded, attaching a photo of Hitler, according to the indictment.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - An avowed white supremacist has been sentenced to life plus 419 years, on top of his initial life sentence on hate crime charges. James Alex Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty in March. He was sentenced to life in prison on 29 federal hate crime charges last month in an attack that killed Heather Heyer and injured more than two dozen others. The "Unite the Right" rally on Aug. 12, 2017, drew hundreds of white nationalists to Charlottesville to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Fields admitted deliberately driving his car into counterprotesters who showed up to demonstrate against the white nationalists.

Last month, Fields received a life sentence on 29 federal hate crime charges. A state jury has recommended a sentence of life, plus 419 years. Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, said judges in Virginia generally tend to stick with the jury's recommended sentence. In Fields' case, the state sentence will be mainly symbolic since he has already received a life sentence on federal charges. During Fields' state trial, his attorneys focused on his history of mental illness and traumatic childhood.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - An avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia has been sentenced to life in prison on hate crime charges. James Alex Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in March to federal hate crime charges in an attack that killed Heather Heyer and injured more than two dozen others. Fields apologized before the judge handed down his sentence, "Everyday I think about how things could have gone differently. I said, 'I'm going to make this count for you,' and that's what I've done and will continue to do. Fields admitted deliberately driving his car into counterprotesters who showed up to demonstrate against the white nationalists.

(CNN) - A white supremacist who killed a woman and injured dozens of other people when he rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was sentenced Friday to life in prison. US Judge Michael F. Urbanski sentenced Fields following testimony from prosecution witnesses and the defense. Prosecutors -- seeking a sentence of life in prison -- went over details of the attack, including playing video of the car going into the crowd. In a memorandum to the court, Fields pleaded for mercy and asked for a lesser sentence. Heyer's mother, Susan Bro, asked the judge to issue a Fields a life sentence.