All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 30 2008 // An inability to retain inspectors is hurting West Virginia’s efforts to make the inherently dangerous business of coal mining safer.Faced with a turnover rate topping 20 percent, the state is scrambling — for...
Dec 29 2008 // A Massey Energy subsidiary has agreed to pay $4.2 million in civil and criminal penalties and plead guilty to federal charges stemming from a fire that killed two miners at a southern West Virginia coal mine in January...
Dec 19 2008 // The West Virginia Supreme Court says a homeowner’s insurance company should not be held liable for paying damages stemming from a fatal alcohol-related accident involving underaged drinkers.In its unanimous ruling,...
Dec 11 2008 // A law enforcement safety operation on Interstates 64 and 66 in Virginia yielded more than two dozen arrests and more than 3,000 tickets.State police say Operation Air, Lane and Speed was conducted last Friday and Saturday...
Dec 11 2008 // Researchers have developed a trio of pole-climbing serpentine robots designed to take the place of construction workers tasked with dangerous jobs such as inspecting high-rises or underwater bridge piers.The Robotics and...
Dec 9 2008 // Professional truck drivers will be in West Virginia this week demonstrating to teens how to avoid accidents with tractor-trailers.Share the Road is an outreach program of the American Trucking Association that educates...
Dec 5 2008 // A group representing West Virginia’s judiciary has decided not to endorse a proposal to end the election of state judges along partisan lines.The West Virginia Judiciary Association adopted a resolution this week...
Dec 3 2008 // The U.S. Supreme Court is refusing to enter a politically charged case from West Virginia, a major coal producing state, that involves a large punitive damages award and allegations of bias by a state judge.In an order...
Dec 3 2008 // Virginia’s fall fire season has ended, with far fewer scorched acres than the spring edition.Over the 47-day season that ended Sunday, the Virginia Department of Forestry responded to 67 fires that burned 304 acres....
Dec 2 2008 // West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin may ask the Legislature next year to end West Virginia’s practice of electing its judiciary along partisan political lines, at least for the state’s circuit court judges.Manchin...
Dec 1 2008 // Fewer workers in Virginia are being killed while on the job.Federal figures released Monday show workplace fatalties declined by 15 percent, from 165 in 2006 to 141 in 2007. Highway accidents were the top cause of...
Nov 21 2008 // Safeco Insurance and Ohio Casualty, both Liberty Mutual Agency Markets companies, recently announced key management appointments to lead their respective personal and commercial lines operations in their Mid-Atlantic...
Nov 18 2008 // A West Virginian woman has been sentenced to up to 10 years for submitting false insurance claims for jewelry. According to state officials, Sherry Kay Peyton, of Williamstown, who plead guilty in May 2008 was sentenced on...
Nov 16 2008 // West Virgina voters have approved a measure that will allow the Greenbrier Resort to add casino gambling to its list of four-star amenities.Voters rejected a similar proposal in 2000, but this year’s measure was...
Nov 12 2008 // Lawyers in a suit stemming from a fatal fire at a Massey Energy coal mine 2006 clashed this week over whether the deaths of two men could have been averted.Bruce Stanley, representing the widows of both men, told a Logan...
Nov 12 2008 // BrickStreet Insurance said it is looking to shed 50 employees in a move to cut costs following the loss of its monopoly in writing workers’ compensation insurance policies to West Virginia businesses.The action is...
Nov 7 2008 // Workplace fatalities are declining in West Virginia, according to preliminary federal figures released Nov. 5.The numbers show a nearly 23 percent decline in workplace deaths between 2006 and 2007, the U.S. Department of...
Nov 6 2008 // West Virgnia voters have approved a measure that will allow the Greenbrier Resort to add casino gambling to its list of four-star amenities.With 100 percent of the vote counted, the measure was approved by a vote of 51...
Nov 5 2008 // A spooked four-point buck and his companion apparently jumped from an Interstate 470 bridge ramp in West Virginia and plunged through the roof of the Wheeling Distribution Center.Owner Dan Shay says workers were stunned...
Nov 5 2008 // Two coal miners were burned on their faces and arms Nov. 3 when gas ignited, creating a brief flash of fire at a mine in northern West Virginia.The Whitetail Kittanning Mine was shut down and two investigators were sent to...