All the headlines from our Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 19 2008 // A West Virginia court indicted a Welch, W.Va. man on two felony counts of filing a false claim with an insurance company, according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. A Mercer County Grand Jury indicted Aaron D....
Jun 19 2008 // The West Virginia Division of Highways says it will cost at least $4.5 million to repair highways damaged by flooding earlier this month.DOH spokeswoman Karen Zamow says the estimate covers damage in 13 counties in...
Jun 19 2008 // Nationwide Insurance will open a consolidated state claims office in Kanawha County in July. Nationwide spokeswoman Liz Christopher said June 17 that five claims offices with 72 employees statewide will be moved to one...
Jun 16 2008 // The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is taking a stab at requiring airtight emergency refuges in the nation’s 624 underground coal mines.Mine operators can either store building materials underground,...
Jun 16 2008 // A labor dispute has cost The Greenbrier a conference that’s been held annually at the four-star resort in West Virginia for more than 90 years. The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers announced June 2 that it...
Jun 12 2008 // Police in Morgantown, West Virginia have a new tool for fighting crime.City-owned surveillance cameras will be tied in with privately owned security systems to create a new surveillance network that covers much of the...
Jun 11 2008 // Government experts are examining a locomotive involved in a fatal accident at a West Virginia coal mine June 5.Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training spokeswoman Jama Jarrett says the state is testing the...
Jun 11 2008 // A Tennessee trucker faces 193 charges for workers’ compensation fraud in Virginia, according to Virginia authorities.Virginia State Police special agents detained William Douglas Pickel on May 21 as Big Sandy Federal...
Jun 10 2008 // After touring flood-affected areas in central West Virginia and other parts of the state, and witnessing substantial damage, Gov. Joe Manchin expanded the state of emergency declared June 4, to six additional counties and...
Jun 4 2008 // A labor dispute has cost The Greenbrier a conference that’s been held annually at the four-star resort in West Virginia for more than 90 years.The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers announced June 2 that it...
Jun 4 2008 // Truck drivers, beware. The West Virginia Public Service Commission is conducting a mandatory road check for commercial vehicles. Starting early on June 3, PSC enforcement officers will conduct nonstop inspections over a...
Jun 2 2008 // An 18-year-old International Coal Group employee died in West Virginia’s third fatal coal mining accident of the year.State Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training spokeswoman Jama Jarrett identified the...
Jun 2 2008 // A labor-management dispute at a luxury resort in West Virginia is forcing the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers — a longtime customer — to search for alternate venues for its conferences.The group of...
Jun 2 2008 // The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers has shifted two conferences with 800 people to The Homestead, a Hot Springs, Virginia, mountain resort, from The Greenbrier, the White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, resort...
Jun 2 2008 // Hurricanes often lift the roofs off buildings and expose them to damaging conditions, even after the worst of the wind has passed. Now, a roofer, Virginia Tech architecture and engineering faculty members and a graduate...
May 27 2008 // A West Virginia teenager suing a Roman Catholic Diocese claiming he was sexually abused has added a service organization to his lawsuit, his lawyer says.The Clarksburg teen, who was not identified in court papers, is...
May 27 2008 // A Washington-based insurance trade organization has shifted two May conferences to The Homestead, a Hot Springs, Virginia, mountain resort.A nearby tavern is hosting sold-out dinner parties, and alcohol sales are soaring...
May 27 2008 // A circuit judge has approved settlements totaling more than $10 million in nine more malpractice lawsuits that accused a former West Virginia doctor of harming patients.Lawyers for Putnam General Hospital and the...
May 20 2008 // A labor-management dispute at a luxury resort in West Virginia is forcing the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers — a longtime customer — to search for alternate venues for its conferences.The group of...
May 19 2008 // Hurricanes often lift the roofs off buildings and expose them to damaging conditions, even after the worst of the wind has passed. A local roofer, Virginia Tech faculty members from architecture and engineering, and a...