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<p>The devil must be ice-skating. Richmond is getting a statue of Abraham Lincoln.</p> <p>Many Virginians and other die-hard Southerners may be flabbergasted by this news. After all, it has been widely held for generations that Richmond would have a statue of Lincoln when hell froze over.</p>

RICHMOND -- An anonymous Web site dedicated to airing allegations of fraud against the underwriters of a statue of Abraham Lincoln was shut down Wednesday after the statue's sponsors complained. The Web site, hosted by Internet service Tripod.com, had accused the U.S. Historical Society, its chairman, Robert H. Kline, and its president, Martin J. Moran, of illegally misleading state and federal officials and the public about the society's nonprofit status. The site implied that the society's plan to set up the statue at a National Park Service site in Richmond was a ploy to promote sales of replicas of...

<p>City Council members vowed to tell Richmond's Civil War history in a different way, starting with their endorsement last night of an Abraham Lincoln statue for the city.</p> <p>Richmond has an abundance of monuments to Confederate heroes such as those on Monument Avenue, but it has few reminders of the abolition of slavery, a few council members contended.</p>